LOOK AROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does look around mean? 

• LOOK AROUND (verb)
  The verb LOOK AROUND has 1 sense:

1. look about oneself

  Familiarity information: LOOK AROUND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOK AROUND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Look about oneself

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

look around to see whether you can find the missing document

Hypernyms (to "look around" is one way to...):

look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

So, as she sat in the door of her castle, she happened to look around and saw Dorothy lying asleep, with her friends all about her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was so pleased at having given the slip to Long John that I began to enjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land that I was in.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I haven’t had a chance to look around yet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His table is covered with thick piles of papers; and I say, as I look around me: If Sophy were your clerk, now, Traddles, she would have enough to do!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I should hope not; but really when I look around among my acquaintance, I tremble.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Bill staggered on through the milky water. He did not look around.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Beyond the entrance of the valley, where the country, though still rich, was less wild and more open, a long stretch of the road which they had travelled on first coming to Barton, lay before them; and on reaching that point, they stopped to look around them, and examine a prospect which formed the distance of their view from the cottage, from a spot which they had never happened to reach in any of their walks before.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor—when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper's room.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The next morning saw them off again at an early hour; and with no events, and no delays, they regularly advanced, and were in the environs of Portsmouth while there was yet daylight for Fanny to look around her, and wonder at the new buildings.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)