"look on" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-look on.ogg [Australia] Forms: looks on [present, singular, third-person], looking on [participle, present], looked on [participle, past], looked on [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} look on (third-person singular simple present looks on, present participle looking on, simple past and past participle looked on)
  1. (idiomatic) To watch; to observe without participating. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: look on as, onlooker Translations (to watch; to observe): наблюдавам (nabljudavam) (Bulgarian), přihlížet [imperfective, with-dative] (Czech), alrigardi (Esperanto), zuschauen (German), stare a guardare (Italian), titta på (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-look_on-en-verb-NzvwJ4Cp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (on) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (on): 70 30 Disambiguation of 'to watch; to observe': 92 8
  2. (idiomatic) To think of something in a particular way. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Vision Translations (to think of something in a particular way): считам (sčitam) (Bulgarian), betrachten (German), ansehen (German), reputare (Italian)
    Sense id: en-look_on-en-verb-yjSWib27 Disambiguation of Vision: 44 56 Disambiguation of 'to think of something in a particular way': 2 98

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for look on meaning in All languages combined (3.4kB)

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