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Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• General-American: lo͝okʹ ŭp
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• General-American: /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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No etymology was provided for this word.

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: näyttää hyvältä — to have better prospects, to improve
• Finnish: näyttää lupaavalta — to have better prospects, to improve
• German: bergauf gehen — to have better prospects, to improve
• German: aufwärtsgehen — to have better prospects, to improve
• Irish: bheith ag feabhsú — to have better prospects, to improve
• Russian: улучша́ться (ulučšátʹsja) — to have better prospects, to improve
• Spanish: mejorar — to have better prospects, to improve
• Arabic: بَحَثَ (baḥaṯa) — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Catalan: cercar — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Chinese Mandarin: 查 (chá) — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Chinese Mandarin: 查閱 /查阅 (cháyuè) — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Czech: vyhledat — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Danish: slå op — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Dutch: opzoeken — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Dutch: naslaan — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Faroese: sláa upp — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Finnish: katsoa — to obtain information about something from a text source
• French: chercher — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Galician: buscar — to obtain information about something from a text source
• German: nachschlagen — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Hungarian: utánanéz — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Hungarian: kikeres — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Icelandic: slá upp — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Irish: cuardaigh — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Italian: cercare — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Japanese: 検索する (kensaku suru) — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Japanese: 調べる (shiraberu) — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Korean: 찾아보다 (chajaboda) — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Malagasy: mikaroka — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Central Sierra Miwok: ˀaký·l- — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Norwegian: slå opp — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Occitan: cercar — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Polish: wyszukiwać — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Polish: wyszukać — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Portuguese: buscar — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Portuguese: pesquisar — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Portuguese: consultar — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Romanian: căuta — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Russian: иска́ть (iskátʹ) — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Russian: поиска́ть (poiskátʹ) — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Russian: смотре́ть (smotrétʹ) — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Russian: посмотре́ть (posmotrétʹ) — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Spanish: buscar — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Swedish: slå upp — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Swedish: kolla upp — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Turkish: bakmak — to obtain information about something from a text source
• Bulgarian: гледам нагоре (gledam nagore) — used other than as an idiom
• Chinese Mandarin: 仰 (yǎng) — used other than as an idiom
• Chinese Mandarin: 上看 (shàngkàn) — used other than as an idiom
• Chinese Mandarin: 仰視 /仰视 (yǎngshì) — used other than as an idiom
• Dutch: opkijken — used other than as an idiom
• Finnish: katsoa (ylös) — used other than as an idiom
• Finnish: katsella (ylös) — used other than as an idiom
• German: hochsehen — used other than as an idiom
• German: aufblicken — used other than as an idiom
• German: ufeluege — used other than as an idiom
• Hungarian: felnéz — used other than as an idiom
• Japanese: 見上げる (miageru) — used other than as an idiom
• Malay: dongak — used other than as an idiom
• Russian: смотре́ть вверх (smotrétʹ vverx) — used other than as an idiom
• Spanish: mirar hacia arriba — used other than as an idiom
• Swedish: se upp — used other than as an idiom
• Tày: bơn — used other than as an idiom
• Turkish: yukarı bakmak — used other than as an idiom
• Vietnamese: ngước — used other than as an idiom