horizon

From Old French orizon, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”)

• IPA^(key): /həˈɹaɪzən/

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horizon (plural horizons)

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

   Synonyms: skysill, skyline

   A tall building was visible on the horizon.

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

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

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 strata
5. (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
6. Any level line or surface.

• archaeological horizon
• artificial horizon
• event horizon
• radar horizon

• horizontal

• 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

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
• horizon rationnel
• horizon sensible
• horizonner
• horizontal

• “horizon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈho.ri.zoːn/, [ˈhɔ.rɪ.zoːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ri.zon/, [ˈoː.ri.d͡zon]

horizōn m (genitive horizontos or horizontis); third

1. horizon

Third declension, Greek type, nominative singular in -ōn. Alternative genitive singular and plural and accusative plural may be attested or may be reconstructed by lexicographers due to horizōn having been imported from the Ancient Greek masculine present active participle.

• 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