to look out on
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3.5
- phrasal verb
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- We children slept on the top floor, and all our windows looked out on the ocean.
- window looks out on
- looks out on the garden
- room looks out on
For this reason, perception is not a matter of looking out on the world and seeing what is there.
- For this reason, perception is not a matter of looking out on the world and seeing what is there.
- The role of the popular decoration is the externalisation, the idea of the gaze, the idea of the house looking out on the street.
- He was obsessed with the, there was a, there was a window that looked out and his room looked out on a clock.
- So where you sit and you look out on your bedroom and you look out from your front window of your house, or you look, you look behind the driver's wheel of a car.
- And I think generally people's health when you look out on the landscape of things that people can do and shouldn't do if their desire is to keep their brain healthy.
Examples
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Yellow lace curtains covered the windows, which looked out on the grassy back lawn and the woods.
Fiction book (1998) -
Saint Luke's studio window looks out on a landscape of a River City in contemporary Flanders.
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On the other side were homes that once looked out on the beach.
Fiction book (1999) -
The window of the room she shared with seven other children looked out on the field.
Fiction book (1999) -
The room had a large bay window that looked out on the steep rock.
Fiction book (2001) -
Sometimes I'd stand in the window in the living room and look out on the street.
Fiction book (1998) -
The front wall was glass, three stories high, and looked out on a dramatic mountainscape.
Fiction book (2001) -
There's lots of light, glass bricks, modern lines, and windows looking out on a park.
Fiction book (1993) -
The President's ornate desk sits on the right, with windows looking out on the Rose Garden behind it.
Fiction book (2000) -
The apartment has a balcony that looks out on the beautiful city skyline.
Synonyms
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4.4
To face a particular direction and give a view of something
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3.7
To look down at a place from above
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3.0
See something on the other side from where you are
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3.4
To have a view of an area from a high place like a balcony or window
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6.2
To have a view of an area from a higher place
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4.3
To face a particular direction or place
A place with a view of something below
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to face or have a view of' is directly derivable from combining 'look' (face/view) with directional 'out' (toward the outside) and locative 'on' (onto a place). This compositional pattern (look out on/over/onto) follows normal English motion/orientation constructions and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner knowing the constituents will likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Look out on comes from the image of a window or room that looks out on a place, like a window facing a garden, street, or bay. That's why it means 'to face or have a view of' today.