look down on

Definitions

1. 1

   To regard or treat as inferior.

   • He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus.
2. 2

   To view from a vantage point.

   • High up on the viaduct, and approached by a spidery staircase from the street, it looks down on Southwark Cathedral.
3. 3

   To view [people or events on Earth] from the vantage point of the afterlife (originally,…

   To view [people or events on Earth] from the vantage point of the afterlife (originally, Heaven).

   • I get a feeling Kurt Cobain is looking down on Nickelback and wondering what alternative rock has become.

The neighborhood

• neighborlook upon