look round

English

Alternative forms

• look around

Verb

look round (third-person singular simple present looks round, present participle looking round, simple past and past participle looked round)

1. To inspect a building or area.

   We're interested in buying this house, can we look round tomorrow?

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

2. To search a place.

   I can't find my keys, so I'll look round.

3. (intransitive) To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself.

   He heard a voice and looked round to see a man wearing dark clothes.

Translations

look round — see look around