lookout

noun

ˈlu̇k-ˌau̇t How to pronounce lookout (audio)
Definition of lookoutnext
1
as in overlook
a high place or structure from which a wide view is possible we went up to the lookout on the top of the hill to watch the fireworks

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2
as in view
all that can be seen from a certain point we were struck by the amazing beauty of the lookout from the top of the tower

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3
as in guard
a person or group that watches over someone or something make sure to post a lookout so that no one can sneak up on us

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as in watch
an act or period of watching for signs of activity, danger, or opportunity one of the robbers kept a lookout for the police

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Recent Examples of lookout There, Pike and Shipp violently tortured Slemmer before killing her, while Peterson acted as lookout. — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026 Zig-zag up the 143 steps to reach the fire lookout tower, which appears on the National Register of Historic Places and continues to operate seasonally. — Abigail Bliss, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2026 This rugged island has cliff paths leading to the old pilot lookout, and sheltered coves. — Natasha Langan, TheWeek, 29 Sep. 2026 Swift has resumed scanning for gamma-ray bursts and exploding stars, but NASA is scrambling to replace the observatory’s role as a rapid-response lookout for other telescopes. — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for lookout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lookout
  1. overlook
  2. view
  3. guard
  4. watch
  5. observatory
  6. custodian
  7. tower
  8. guardian
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  • Situated 30 miles from Yosemite Valley or Wawona, the overlook sits 3,214 feet above Curry Village and offers sweeping vistas of Yosemite’s high country via a short, paved, wheelchair-accessible trail.
    — Gagandeep Singh, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Charlie Angell stands on an overlook of the Rio Grande river 2.
    — Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of overlook
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  • Someone can always point to a fringe view that’s backed up by a different source somewhere on the Internet.
    — Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 24 Oct. 2026
  • One of the two fake videos racked up roughly 857,000 views within 24 hours, according to an analysis by Alethea, a threat intelligence company.
    — Shannon Bond, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
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  • But with the Heat in search of offense and outside shooting, Heat rookie guard Ryan Conwell was called on to play the first meaningful minutes of his NBA career.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2026
  • His coronation signaled where the genre was headed—away from the pleading old-guard types and toward a more fluid, hardcore hip-hop hybrid.
    — Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of guard
Noun
  • Citi adds a positive watch on SpaceX The firm said SpaceX is firing on all cylinders following earnings.
    — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Altogether 228,000 additional Swiss watches were exported in September versus August.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of watch
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  • The observatory was developed following Halzen’s vision in the 1990s of building a detector deep beneath Antarctica’s surface.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
  • About 70% of the members of Brazil’s lower house and 80% of the Senate are considered to be hostile to environmental and climate agendas, according to the observatory.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
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  • Some of the firm’s most successful investments included decentralized exchange Uniswap and crypto custodian Anchorage Digital.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • She’s worked as an evidence custodian, and then as a deputy, and has served in a variety of roles, like as a detective, crime scene evidence technician and field training officer.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
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  • The Club, a 43-story tower classified as a multi-family residential condo, does not have a Certificate of Use to run as a condo-hotel, an omission first revealed by the Miami Herald.
    — Linda Robertson Updated October 22, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Galleria West will have three towers with a total of 1,163 residential units, including 690 market-rate residences and 473 workforce housing units.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of tower
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  • Parents or guardians must still claim and activate those accounts before managing them.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • All the accounts of her story agree that this young heiress, named Maria de Lourdes Fernandes, witnessed the deaths of her parents; her guardian then locked her up and drove her to suicide to get her inheritance.
    — Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
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“Lookout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lookout. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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