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Overlooking   /ˈoʊvərlˌʊkɪŋ/   Listen
Overlooking

adjective
1.
Used of a height or viewpoint.  Synonyms: commanding, dominating.  "Looked up at the castle dominating the countryside" , "The balcony overlooking the ballroom"


Overlook

verb
(past & past part. overlooked; pres. part. overlooking)
1.
Look past, fail to notice.
2.
Be oriented in a certain direction.  Synonyms: look across, look out on, look out over.  "The apartment overlooks the Hudson"
3.
Leave undone or leave out.  Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, pretermit.  "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
4.
Look down on.  Synonyms: command, dominate, overtop.
5.
Watch over.





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"Overlooking" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mrs. Granger made their way to the inner room by and by. It was the prettiest room of the three, with a great semi-circular window overlooking nothing particular in the daytime, but making a handsome amber-hung recess at night. Here there was a sea-coal fire a l'anglaise, and only a subdued glimmering of wax candles, instead of the broad glare in the larger saloons. Here, too were to be found the choicest of Madame Caballero's guests; ...
— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon
... possible to one of his estates in the neighborhood of the city, and there await the unfolding of the scenes that remained yet to be enacted. The plan was at once carried into effect. The estate to which we retreated was about four Roman miles from the walls, situated upon an eminence, and overlooking the city and the surrounding plains. Soon as the shadows of the evening of the first day of the reign of Antiochus had fallen, we departed from Palmyra, and within an hour found ourselves upon a spot as wild and secluded as if it had been within the bosom of a wilderness. The ...
— Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware
... a letter to read to you this afternoon, girls," said Miss Ruth; "also the story of a yellow dog. The letter is from a friend of mine who spends her summers in a quiet village in Maine, in a fine old mansion overlooking green fields and a beautiful lake with hills sloping down to it on every side. Here is the letter she wrote me ...
— Miss Elliot's Girls • Mrs Mary Spring Corning
... it would be to have a house on this delightful bank, overlooking the lake," said Louis; "only think of the fish we could take, and the ducks and wild fowl we could shoot! and it would be no very hard matter to hollow out a log canoe, such a one as I have heard my father ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill
... the following morning she rose upon the crest of an eminence overlooking a vast area of bald prairie country, where, for the first time since leaving the Indians, she halted, and, turning round, tremblingly cast a rapid glance to the rear, expecting to see the savage blood-hounds upon her track; but, ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler


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