"look out over" meaning

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What does this phrase mean ? Is it something like "overlooking something" ? Here are sentences for you to check. Please don't hesitate to tell if it has more than one meaning.
1."From my room I look out over the surrounding countryside"
2."Lanre leading the way, they came to a high place in the mountains where they could look out over the land"
3."You can go inside for a small fee and walk up a tiny, curved staircase to look out over the square"
4."Where there are windows, the delivery of light and vista, looking out over the expanse of Lake Michigan to an infinite horizon, is magnificent"

Fivejedjon · Accepted Answer

Were you not happy with the responses you received here?

Cavid Hummatov · Answer

How did you conlude that? I think I've never hinted at something like that. As you can see I've got no responses yet for my thread.

CalifJim · Answer

Cavid HummatovHow did you conlude that? I think I've never hinted at something like that. As you can see I've got no responses yet for my thread.

You were supposed to click on the link designated "here".

Anyway, yes, the uses of "look out over" in your sentences have the meaning "overlooking something", just as you thought.

CJ

Cavid Hummatov · Answer

I see . The reason that I prefered to ask it various forums is just to ensure some other confusions which are not answered exactly. 1st - By overlooking you probably meant "look across to smthg" or "look toward smthg" didnt you?
2nd - If it's so, Could this go for the people and simply mean "look at/toward" as in the case "He looked out over the crowd and then looked down, looked right at Samuel" or it could take place only between places, sites, localities and it's not correct to say - " I looked out over him" ?
I hope I made myself clear.

CalifJim · Answer

Cavid HummatovI hope I made myself clear.

To be honest, it's a little dicey.

Cavid HummatovBy overlooking you probably meant "look across to smthg" or "look toward smthg" didnt you?

Looking over and across something, as when you are high on a cliff overlooking a valley.

Cavid HummatovHe looked out over the crowd and then looked down, looked right at Samuel

He looked out over the crowd is OK. He looked down at Samuel is OK. He looked to the right at Samuel is OK. He looked [right / directly] at Samuelis OK. I don't know why you combined all of those in one sentence, though.

Cavid Hummatovit's not correct to say - " I looked out over him" ?

We don't normally say that, but if you are much taller than he is, it could work.

CJ

Cavid Hummatov · Answer

Looking over and across something, as when you are high on a cliff overlooking a valley.

well. your remark relatively differs from what I was told in other forums. As far as I understood by "look out over" you mean literary "to look smthg from the higher position" . Didnt you? But what I was told so far is that it doesn't necessarily mean to look down smth from the higher level, it simply has a meaning similar to "to be oriented toward smth" as in this example "Alexander Rhodes sat along a stretch of grass, looking out over the Allegheny River"
All these example sentences I provided hasn't been made up by me. They are from different papers such as Wall Street, Washington Times.

Fivejedjon · Answer

If you are looking out over a river, then your viewpoint is higher than the river. If the river were higher than  you, you wouldn;t see it.

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