LOOK FORWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does look forward mean? 

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

1. expect or hope for

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOK FORWARD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expect or hope for

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

I look to hear from you soon

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

await; expect; look; wait (look forward to the probable occurrence of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

"That's true. Don't you wish you could take a look forward and see where we shall all be then? I do," returned Laurie.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is what I have to look forward to, and to live for.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Here is a five-star day to look forward to: On March 20, when Mars conjoins Jupiter, you’ll have another dazzler.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Instead of looking back, therefore, I will look forward.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A question about whether an individual feels or felt that they had nothing to look forward to.

(Did You Feel That You Had Nothing to Look Forward To, NCI Thesaurus)

“We look forward to increasing the size of our planet sample in future studies,” said Madhusudhan.

(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)

I do look forward to it, I own, with very great pleasure.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I love Elizabeth and look forward to our union with delight.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This was gaining something, something to look forward to.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) I look forward with enjoyment to things.

(HADS - I Look Forward with Enjoyment to Things, NCI Thesaurus)