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labyrinth
Meaning: a complicated network of paths or passages
labyrinth in a sentence
How labyrinth is used in real sentences:
Tourists often get lost in the labyrinth of narrow alleys behind the old market.
Finding the exit from the corn field felt like navigating a labyrinth with no visible landmarks.
“Before anyone discussed a name, Mara carried the records through a labyrinth of shielded passages to an independent lab.”
— from the passage A Place on the Table
Synonyms for labyrinth
Other words for labyrinth — maze and warren — carry the same meaning.
- maze
- warren
Where it comes from
From Greek labyrinthos, the mythical maze of Crete
Memory hook
LAB-yrinth: a lab experiment maze you can't escape.