horizon

Inherited from Middle English orisonte, orisoun, from Middle French horizon, horizonte, from Old French orisonte, orison, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).

• IPA^(key): /həˈɹaɪ.zən/

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horizon (plural horizons)

1. The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.

   Synonyms: skysill, skyline

   A tall building was visible on the horizon.

2. (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.

   Some students take a gap year after finishing high school to broaden their horizons.

   With clinical researchers hard at work, a new treatment is on the horizon.

   • 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 38:

     The Indians of the Americas totaled no less than 70 million when the foreign conquerors appeared on the horizon; a century and a half later they had been reduced to 3.5 million.

3. The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
   • 2003, Miguel de Beistegui, Thinking with Heidegger: Displacements, →ISBN, page 157:

     Only mortality, this irreducible and primordial horizon, that very horizon which, in Being and Time, Heidegger so compellingly revealed as the unsurpassable and defining possibility, remains.

4. (geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
5. (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
6. Any level line or surface.
7. (computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.

• horizontal
• aorist

• vertical

•   horizon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦoː.ri.zɔn/

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horizon m (plural horizonten or horizonnen)

1. horizon

   Synonyms: kim, einder

• → Indonesian: horizon
• → Papiamentu: hórizòn

Borrowed from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/

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• Homophone: horizons
• Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon

horizon m (plural horizons)

1. horizon

• bleu horizon
• élargir ses horizons
• horizon des événements
• horizon rationnel
• horizon sensible
• horizonner
• horizontal
• ligne d’horizon
• tour d’horizon

• “horizon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch horizon, from Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).

• IPA^(key): [hoˈrizɔn]
• Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon

horizon (first-person possessive horizonku, second-person possessive horizonmu, third-person possessive horizonnya)

1. horizon:
   1. the visible horizontal line or point (in all directions) that appears to connect the Earth to the sky.

      Synonyms: kaki langit, ufuk, cakrawala

   2. (geoglogy) a specific layer of soil or strata.
2. (in extension) sky, atmosphere, space

   Synonyms: ambara, angkasa, awang-awang, bumantara, cakrawala, dirgantara, langit, udara

• “horizon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hoˈriz.zoːn/, [hɔˈrɪz̪d̪͡z̪oːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈrid.d͡zon/, [oˈrid̪ː͡z̪on]

horizōn m (genitive horizontis); third declension

1. horizon

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ōn).

• “horizon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• horizon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

horizon f

1. Veldeke spelling of Hooriṣǫn