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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”).

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.

  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.

line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky

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

horizon m (plural horizonten or horizonnen)

  1. horizon
    Synonyms: kim, einder

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

horizon m (plural horizons)

  1. horizon

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

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

horizon (uncountable)

  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

From Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn).

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”).

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.