- an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit.
- a maze of paths bordered by high hedges, as in a park or garden, for the amusement of those who search for a way out.
- a complicated or tortuous arrangement, as of streets or buildings.
- any confusingly intricate state of things or events; a bewildering complex: His papers were lost in an hellish bureaucratic labyrinth.After the death of her daughter, she wandered in a labyrinth of sorrow for what seemed like a decade.
- a vast maze built in Crete by Daedalus, at the command of King Minos, to house the Minotaur.
- Anatomy.
- the internal ear, consisting of a bony portion (bony labyrinth ) and a membranous portion (membranous labyrinth ).
- the aggregate of air chambers in the ethmoid bone, between the eye and the upper part of the nose.
- a mazelike pattern inlaid in the pavement of a church.
- a loudspeaker enclosure with air chambers at the rear for absorbing sound waves radiating in one direction so as to prevent their interference with waves radiated in another direction.
- a mazelike network of tunnels, chambers, or paths, either natural or man-made
- any complex or confusing system of streets, passages, etc
- a complex or intricate situation
- any system of interconnecting cavities, esp those comprising the internal ear
- another name for internal ear
- an enclosure behind a high-performance loudspeaker, consisting of a series of air chambers designed to absorb unwanted sound waves
- a huge maze constructed for King Minos in Crete by Daedalus to contain the Minotaur
