Antonyms for lookout
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : look-out |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlʊkˌaʊt |
Definition of lookout
Origin :- also look-out, "person who stands watch or acts as a scout," 1690s, from look + out. Verbal phrase look out "be on the watch" attested from c.1600.
- noun guard; place from which to guard
- I have set Sharp to keep a lookout for him, but he has learned nothing as yet.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- For a whole month the German vanguard remained on the lookout in the village.
- Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant
- Always he was on the lookout for the trail of the gods where it might leave the river and proceed inland.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- With what eagerness the sailors must have kept on the lookout!
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- I found out afterwards that they'd been on the lookout for the bombshell for half an hour.
- Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Sam was forward, keeping a lookout and fretting at the delay.
- Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Jed, on the lookout for just such symptoms, was trying to cheer him up.
- Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- It's their lookout, not mine; an' I ain't got no love for coyotes no how.'
- Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
- Chet, too, turned to the lookout by which he stood and stared through it.
- Extract from : « The Finding of Haldgren » by Charles Willard Diffin
- The steep hills on our left form at once a hiding-place and a lookout.
- Extract from : « The Cat of Bubastes » by G. A. Henty
Synonyms for lookout
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