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 whole sweep of 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.

   • 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 428:

     It is because theirs has become the only explicit general philosophy of social policy held by a large group, the only system or theory which raises new problems and opens new horizons, that they have succeeded in inspiring the imagination of the intellectual.

   • 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
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• 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

• “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 (plural horizon-horizon)

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): [hɔˈrɪz.zoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈrid̪.d̪͡z̪on]

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

From English horizon, 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): [ho.rai̯.zən]
• Rhymes: -zən, -ən
• Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon

horizon (Jawi spelling هوريزون)

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

      Synonyms: kaki langit, ufuk

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

• “horizon” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.