<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>An intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit.</li><li>Synonyms: web, network, maze.</li><li>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.</li><li>A complicated or tortuous arrangement, as of streets or buildings.</li><li>Synonyms: knot, tangle, snarl, jungle, maze, warren.</li><li>Any confusingly intricate state of things or events; a bewildering complex.</li><li>Example: His papers were lost in a hellish bureaucratic labyrinth.</li><li>Example: After the death of her daughter, she wandered in a labyrinth of sorrow for what seemed like a decade.</li><li>Synonyms: morass, forest, jungle, wilderness.</li><li>Classical Mythology: A vast maze built in Crete by Daedalus, at the command of King Minos, to house the Minotaur.</li><li>Anatomy: The internal ear, consisting of a bony portion (bony labyrinth) and a membranous portion (membranous labyrinth).</li><li>The aggregate of air chambers in the ethmoid bone, between the eye and the upper part of the nose.</li><li>A mazelike pattern inlaid in the pavement of a church.</li><li>Also called acoustic labyrinth.</li><li>Audio: 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.</li></ul>