Definition of "labyrinth" (Greek mythology) A maze -like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos , containing the Minotaur .
A complicated irregular network of passages or paths , especially underground or covered , in which it is difficult to find one 's way . quotations examples
Quotations 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 ."
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], pages 264–265
verb third-person singular simple present labyrinths , present participle labyrinthing , simple past and past participle labyrinthed