Synonyms:
lookout, outlook
Meaning: the act of looking out
Synonyms:
lookout, observation_tower, lookout_station, observatory
Meaning: a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings
Synonyms:
lookout, observation_post
Meaning: an elevated post affording a wide view
Synonyms:
lookout, lookout_man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket
Meaning: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
Usage examples
"That's YOUR lookout!" his father grunted.
"Keep a sharp lookout, Dick!" was the doctor's good-night injunction.
But that hound Bishop had passed the word, and the fort kept a sharp lookout.
He comforted his crew, and then climbed the mast to keep a sharp lookout for danger.
A few moments later, the lookout called down that we were running into a fog-bank dead ahead.
Everyone, he thought, had some good in him, and in all he met he was on the lookout to find it.
Mr. Welch," he shouted, "it is all safe here, so far as we know; we are all on the lookout to cover you as you come up."
Across the road behind her parlor curtains Mrs. Perkins was keeping lookout, and remarking to a neighbor who had run in:
The others, always on the lookout for some new object of interest, were attracted by these words, and looked closely at the thing in question.
I forgot that the little house was fragrant with the odor of spice and fruit, and that there was a man about who was ever on the lookout for good things to eat.