look upon

English

Verb

look upon (third-person singular simple present looks upon, present participle looking upon, simple past and past participle looked upon)

1. To consider or regard something in a specific manner.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deem

   Some people look upon lexicography as their life's work.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

2. To gaze at something; to look on.

   Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

See also

• look down upon