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lookout

UK/ˈlʊkaʊt/US/ˈlʊkaʊt/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,930 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: lookouts

A lookout is somebody watching for danger, and the place they watch from. Keep a lookout, post a lookout, the lookout spotted it.

The Titanic's lookouts had no binoculars, which is one of the small facts that shadow the whole story. On the lookout for means actively searching. That's your lookout is British for that is your problem, from an older sense meaning your concern.

Harrison Weir · Public domain

Definitions of lookout

  1. 1nounlookoutSomebody watching for danger, or the place they watch from.B2

    “One of the boys stood at the corner as a lookout while the others climbed the wall.”

lookout is a watcher, or a post.

Where it comes from

Deverbal from look out.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Military & Defence

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lookout in the wild

  • In many locations, even modern fire lookout towers do not have electricity or running water.

    Fire lookout

  • Fire lookouts can be paid staff or volunteer staff.

    Fire lookout

  • In 1928, a 60-foot-tall steel fire lookout tower was built on the mountain.

    Jackie Jones Mountain

  • In 1940, an 82-foot-6-inch-tall steel fire lookout tower was built on the mountain.

    Mount Nimham

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.