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Added 1 October 2026

look

/lʊk/ verb

In Latin: specto, video, tueor Wiktionary

verb Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about look at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
They kept looking at me.
As an intransitive verb, often with "at".
They kept looking at me.
As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
Look what you did to him!

interjection

Pay attention.
Look, I'm going to explain what to do, so you have to listen closely.

noun

The action of looking; an attempt to see.
Let’s have a look under the hood of the car.
Physical appearance, visual impression.
She got her mother’s looks.
A facial expression.
He gave me a dirty look.

Origin

From Middle English loken, lokien, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn. Further origin unknown, no certain cognates outside Germanic. Cognate with Scots luke, luik, leuk (“to look, see”), West Frisian lôkje, loaitsje (“to look”), Dutch loeken (“to look”), German Low German löken. Likely also related to German lugen (“to peek”), Alemannic German luege (“to look”), Yiddish לוגן (lugn).

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