horizons

Noun

horizon (plural horizons)

1. 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.

   Synonyms:

   skysill, skyline

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.
3. 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
4. A specific layer of soil, or stratum
5. (US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
6. Any level line or surface.

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