labyrinth

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1. labyrinth - Noun

2. labyrinth - Verb

Meaning

An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.

Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.

An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.

The internal ear. See Note under Ear.

A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal.

A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.

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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. Victor Hugo

The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth. Jorge Luis Borges

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being. Nadine Gordimer

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding out what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. Stanisław Lem

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time. Jorge Luis Borges

[We] had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. John Green (author)

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