horizon
pronunciation
How to pronounce horizon in British English:
UK [həˈraɪzn]
How to pronounce horizon in American English:
US [həˈraɪzn]
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- Noun:
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
- a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
- the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
Word Origin
- horizon
- horizon: [14] Etymologically, the horizon is simply a ‘line forming a boundary’. The word comes via Old French orizon and late Latin horīzōn from Greek horízōn, a derivative of the verb horīzein ‘divide, separate’ (source also of English aphorism [16], originally a ‘definition’). This in turn came from the noun hóros ‘boundary, limit’. Horizontal [16], which came either from French or directly from late Latin, originally meant simply ‘of the horizon’; it was not until the 17th century that it began to be used in its modern sense ‘flat, level’.=> aphorism
- horizon (n.)
- late 14c., orisoun, from Old French orizon (14c., Modern French horizon), earlier orizonte (13c.), from Latin horizontem (nominative horizon), from Greek horizon kyklos "bounding circle," from horizein "bound, limit, divide, separate," from horos "boundary." The h- was restored 17c. in imitation of Latin. Old English used eaggemearc ("eye-mark") for "limit of view, horizon."
Example
- 1. Inside the stony horizon , the wolf 's tongue .
- 2. They scope the horizon through the sights of gleamingly maintained rifles .
- 3. Dark clouds gathered on the horizon foretell doom in the popular imagination .
- 4. In markets , things look different depending on your time horizon .
- 5. She remembers " the tall forests and the pacific horizon line " as formative presences .