labyrinth

Definitions

1. A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.
   Greek
2. A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
   Greek
3. A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur. A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way
4. A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.
   Greek
5. A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way
6. A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges
7. Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.
   Greek, broadly
8. A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths
9. A tortuous anatomical structure:
10. A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance, consisting of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth).
11. Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character
12. An accessory respiratory organ of certain fish.
13. Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.

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Examples

“Mrs. Churchill liked the interminable labyrinths of the Cyrus and the Cassandra, because she had liked them in the days of her girlhood. Youth identifies itself with the romance; it is the heroic knight, or the lovely lady, of which it reads; it lives amid those fine creations; its sweetest hours are given to dreams which soon "Fade⟳ into the light⟳ of common day."”

“Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.”

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