English Dictionary

labyrinth

/ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/

noun

A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way. / (horticulture) A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.

The children got lost in the labyrinth.

意味（1）

A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.

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.

意味（2）

(horticulture) A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.

意味（3）

(by extension) Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.

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.

意味（4）

(anatomy) A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance. It consists of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth).

意味（5）

(zoology) An accessory respiratory organ of certain fish.

意味（6）

Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.