Definition of Look forward

1. Verb. Expect or hope for. "I look to hear from you soon"

Generic synonyms: Await, Expect, Look, Wait

Definition of Look forward

1. Verb. (idiomatic) To anticipate or expect; especially, to expect something to be pleasant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Look Forward

look ahead
look alike
look and feel
look around
look at
look away
look back
look backward
look before you leap
look book
look daggers
look down on
look down one's nose
look down upon
look for
look forward (current term)
look forward to
look here
look into
look like
look off
look on
look out
look out for number one
look out on
look out over
look over
look round
look sharp
look the other way

Literary usage of Look forward

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... See must insist on these tacts and look forward to some efficient remedy for the injustice and indignity of present conditions. ..."

2. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1880)
"Besting upon the facts of the past, the Church must look forward, with the eager eye of hope, to the facts of the future, when our Lord shall come, ..."

3. History of Political Conventions in California: 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"That under our present administration we look forward with hope to the speedy completion of a Pacific railroad, and the adoption of the free homestead ..."

4. Letters of Edward FitzGerald by Edward FitzGerald (1894)
"We look forward to The Lammermoor, and Old Mortality before long. I made another vain attempt on George Eliot at Lowestoft, Middlemarch. To JR Lowell. ..."

5. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"The Dutch therefore might look forward to a renewal of the French invasion of 1672. These designs of Louis were the more alarming because his power was so ..."

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