horizon
/həˈɹaɪ.zən/
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Australia/həˈɹɑe.zən/
horizon noun: the visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
Noun
horizon (plural horizons)
- The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- A tall building was visible on the whole sweep of the horizon.
- The sky and sea seem to merge at the horizon.
- 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.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- 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.2003, Miguel de Beistegui, Thinking with Heidegger: Displacements, →ISBN, page 157
- A specific layer of soil, or stratum
- A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- Any level line or surface.
- The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
horizon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
horizon in Hindi
- line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky
- क्षितिज kṣitij, दिगंत digant
horizon in Tamil
- line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky
- கீழ்வானம் kīḻvāṉam, அடிவானம் aṭivāṉam, தொடுவான் toṭuvāṉ, தொடுவானம் toṭuvāṉam
horizon in Marathi
- line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky
- क्षितिज kṣitij
horizon in Urdu
- line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky
- اُفُق ufuq
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- horizon in Bengali
- দিগন্ত digonto
- horizon in Telugu
- హోరిజోన్, క్షితిజము
- horizon in Malayalam
- ചക്രവാളം cakravāḷaṁ
- horizon in Kannada
- ಕಡೆಮುಗಿಲ್, ಕಡೆಮುಗಿಲು, ಬಾನಂಚು, ಕ್ಷಿತಿಜ
- horizon in Punjabi
- ਕ੍ਿਤਿਜ
- horizon in Gujarati
- ક્ષિતિજ kṣitij
- horizon in Odia
- ମଣ୍ଡଳ maṇḍaḷa
- horizon in Sanskrit
- क्षितिज kṣitija, कुज kuja
- horizon in Sinhala
- ක්ෂිතිජය kṣitijaya
- horizon in Nepali
- क्षितिज
- horizon in Pashto
- افق ufúq
- horizon in Tagalog
- abot-tanaw, kagiliran
- horizon in Arabic
- أُفُق ʔufuq
- horizon in Malay
- kaki langit, ufuk, horizon
- horizon in Indonesian
- kaki langit, cakrawala, horizon, ufuk
- horizon in Thai
- ขอบฟ้า kɔ̀ɔp-fáa
- horizon in Vietnamese
- chân trời
- horizon in Myanmar
- မိုးကုပ်စက်ဝိုင်း mui:kupcak-wuing:
Examples of horizon in a sentence
- They learn that reading, besides being something one does at school, is also something one can do on one's own, for fun, to satisfy curiosity, or even to "expand one's horizons.”1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 25:
- 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.1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 38:
Synonyms of horizon
Forms of horizon
| plural | horizons |
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Origin of 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”).
Words formed from horizon
- absolute horizon
- A-horizon
- antihorizon
- apparent horizon
- archaeological horizon
- archeological horizon
- artificial horizon
- Cauchy horizon
- circumhorizon
- comoving horizon
- cosmic event horizon
- cosmic light horizon
- cosmological event horizon
- cosmological horizon
- dip of the horizon
- dynamical horizon
- event horizon
- Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin horizon
- GZK horizon
- horizonal
- horizon effect
- horizon glass
- horizonless
- horizon problem
- horizonward
- horizonwards
- Hubble horizon
- isolated horizon
- Killing horizon
- marker horizon
- moral event horizon
- on the horizon
- particle horizon
- quicksilver horizon
- radar horizon
- rational horizon
- split horizon
- subhorizon
- superhorizon
- time horizon
- unhorizoned
Phrases with horizon
Questions about horizon
- What does horizon mean?
- Horizon means the visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- What is horizon in Hindi?
- Horizon in Hindi is क्षितिज (kṣitij), दिगंत (digant). See Horizon meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use horizon in a sentence?
- They learn that reading, besides being something one does at school, is also something one can do on one's own, for fun, to satisfy curiosity, or even to "expand one's horizons.”
- What part of speech is horizon?
- Horizon is a noun.
- How do you pronounce horizon?
- Horizon is pronounced /həˈɹaɪ.zən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of horizon?
- The plural of horizon is horizons.
Words near horizon in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: horizon (page history and authors); horizon (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ചക്രവാളം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); horizon (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horizon (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ક્ષિતિજ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ମଣ୍ଡଳ (Odia) (page history and authors); horizon (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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