LOOK OUT ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does look out on mean? 

• LOOK OUT ON (verb)
  The verb LOOK OUT ON has 1 sense:

1. be oriented in a certain direction

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOK OUT ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be oriented in a certain direction

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

look across; look out on; look out over; overlook

Context example:

The apartment overlooks the Hudson

Hypernyms (to "look out on" is one way to...):

lie (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

As I look out on the night, my tears fall fast, and my undisciplined heart is chastened heavily—heavily.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was a sight which I shall never forget until my dying day—so weird, so impossible, that I do not know how I am to make you realize it, or how in a few years I shall bring myself to believe in it if I live to sit once more on a lounge in the Savage Club and look out on the drab solidity of the Embankment.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having spread the quilt and folded my night-dress, I went to the window-seat to put in order some picture-books and doll's house furniture scattered there; an abrupt command from Georgiana to let her playthings alone (for the tiny chairs and mirrors, the fairy plates and cups, were her property) stopped my proceedings; and then, for lack of other occupation, I fell to breathing on the frost-flowers with which the window was fretted, and thus clearing a space in the glass through which I might look out on the grounds, where all was still and petrified under the influence of a hard frost.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)