LOOK UP TO

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does look up to mean? 

• LOOK UP TO (verb)
  The verb LOOK UP TO has 1 sense:

1. feel admiration for

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOK UP TO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feel admiration for

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

admire; look up to

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

esteem; prise; prize; respect; value (regard highly; think much of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "look up to"):

envy (feel envious towards; admire enviously)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Here was an intelligence, a living man for him to look up to.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

No young people's are, I suppose, when those they look up to are at home.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It is predicted that an astronaut walking on the red soil of the planet could look up to see the southern night sky glow blue, with red and green hues.

(Blue Aurorae in Mars’ Sky Visible to the Naked Eye, NASA)

Mrs. March and Jo were deep in their own affairs, when a sound from Meg made them look up to see her staring at her note with a frightened face.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Look up to it, and be tranquil if you can.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I want you to know, yet don't know how to tell you, that all my life long I shall look up to you, and be guided by you, as I have been through the darkness that is past.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was humble, and wishing to be forgiven; and Mr. Yates, desirous of being really received into the family, was disposed to look up to him and be guided.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He is not a shining character, but he has a thousand good qualities; and is so disposed to look up to you, that I am quite laughed at about it, for everybody considers it as my doing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)