mystery
Definitions
- Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
- Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown
- Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature
- Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
- An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred
- An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred.
- A mystery play
- A mystery play.
- A secret or mystical meaning
- A secret or mystical meaning.
- A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid).
- A sacrament.
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A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation. countable, in-plural, uncountable
- A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.
- A craft, art or trade; specifically a guild of craftsmen.
Equivalents
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Azərbaycan dilisirr
বাংলারহস্য
Catalàmisteri
Češtinazáhada
Cymraegdirgelwch
Danskmysterium
Esperantomistero
Gàidhligrùn
Galegoarcano
Magyarrejtély
Bahasa Indonesiamisteri
Íslenskaráðgáta
ភាសាខ្មែរអាថ៌កំបាំង
Lietuviųpaslaptis
Монголнууц
မြန်မာစကားထာ
Nederlandsmysterie
Portuguêsmistério
Românămister
Slovenčinazáhada
Slovenščinaskrivnost
Kiswahilisiri
தமிழ்மர்மம்
ไทยความลี้ลับ
ئۇيغۇرچەسىر
O'zbekchasir
isiZuluzinga
Examples
“The truth behind the events remains a mystery.”
“The case was that of a murder⟳. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.”
“The fate of the railway from Ballater to Braemar has been invested with an air of mystery, which has never been completely dispelled. It has been suggested that Queen Victoria was opposed to a railway in the vicinity of Balmoral Castle, and intervened personally to secure the abandonment of the line beyond Ballater.”
“That man is a mystery.”
“Then I had a good think⟳ on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit⟳ that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.”
“The Moralities displayed something more of art and invention than the Mysteries; in them virtues, vices and qualities were personified, and something like⟳ a plot was frequently to be discovered.”
“[…] and, not knowing the meaning or misterie of her pollicie, forgat no termes of reproche or rigorous rebuke against his chast doughter.”
“1744 (first printed), Jonathan Swift, A Sermon on the Trinity If God should please⟳ to reveal⟳ unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand⟳ them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind⟳.”
“There are seven mysteries, or sacraments, in the Greek church, viz. baptism, the chrism (a rite peculiar to this church), the eucharist, confession, ordination, marriage, and the holy oil.”
“the Eleusinian mysteries”
“the Mysteries of Mithras”
“There’s no initiation either into such mysteries.”
“It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.”
“The second decade of the Rosary concerns the Sorrowful mysteries, such as the crucifixion and the crowning with thorns.”
“The trades, the crafts, the mysteries, would all be losers.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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