look round

verb — 3 senses

look round

verb
1

Idiomatic To inspect a building or area.

  • We're interested in buying this house, can we look round tomorrow?
  • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
2

Idiomatic To search a place.

  • I can't find my keys, so I'll look round.
3

Idiomatic To turn one's head to see what is behind oneself.

  • He heard a voice and looked round to see a man wearing dark clothes.

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