Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To anticipate or expect; especially, to expect something to be pleasant.
WordNet
v. expect or hope for; "I look to hear from you soon"
Usage examples of "look forward".
Crystal recently established a $250,000 scholarship endowment fund for the QCC Port of Entry Program to ensure its continued success, and I look forward to bringing many future graduates on board at Crystal.
Even if he could look forward to some additional decades, the years of his most fruitful breakthroughs were surely behind him.
Still, each year sees us further advanced and I look forward confidently to the establishment of psychohistory as a legitimate and useful technique for dealing with the future.
The Building is a great undertaking, which our children can look forward to and our finest men and women can work together on.
Beginning to look forward to its brief visits and its occasional odd noises directed at them, they would strain to catch its scent.
Remembering how pleased she had been to receive her first implantation, Cipriano did not look forward to the moment when he would have to confront her with the news.
May it be for all of you an object of hope, not a moment to look forward to with terror and trembling.
Naturally they wouldn't aim directly at the enemy, that went without saying, but there would be a lot of exciting repair work to look forward to!
You must understand that we all look forward to an eventual unification of the world as one nation.
I'm sure they'll be intelligent and potent, and I look forward to your results.
But certainly Azak would cooperate also, because he had duties to perform while the encampment bedded down, with no marital joys to look forward to.
I am sure that you look forward to his return with almost as much anticipation as do his children and I .