Wiktionary
vb. 1 to consider the future, to anticipate future events 2 to look in front of you literally
Usage examples of "look ahead".
He realized that his eyes had been directed at the ground and the boots of the man in front of him, and raised his face to look ahead.
They had walked some miles from the place where they lit their fire, when a somewhat unmistakable sound made Rodriguez look ahead of him.
He clambered part way up the mast to look ahead, sniffed the air then let his hand dangle over the side in the sea.
He no longer tried to look ahead, to grope his way through the endless labyrinth of his material difficulties.
Soon this abominable mysterious land would disappear, and he would look ahead to a new life.
He could look ahead twenty years without being dizzied at the distance.
Flat to earth, he pushed head and shoulders under the low limbs of the bush to look ahead.
That made him look ahead in a way he did not like, to see himself cowering on the throne he had won.