horizon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The line in the distance where the sky seems to meet the land or sea.

   The sun slowly sank below the horizon.

2. 2
   noun

   The limit of your knowledge, experience, or interest.

   Travelling abroad really broadened my horizons.

3. 3
   noun

   The range of things that can be expected or imagined.

   New opportunities are appearing on the 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”).

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