English

Alternative forms

• look around

Verb

look round

1. To inspect a building or area.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.

   We're interested in buying this house, can we look round tomorrow?‎

2. To search a place.

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

3. (intransitive) 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.‎