labyrinth
/ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- "Recent investigations into alleged wrongdoings at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reveal an apparent labyrinth of deceit, competitiveness, and a sluggish approach to fighting AIDS/ARC."
- "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."
- "It is said to have been labyrinthed by secret exits and cunning contrivances to facilitate the escape of fugitives from the law."
- "By labyrinthing, close axial running clearances can be increased without reducing efficiency."
- "In the ports the transmission path is often labyrinthed through shielding but the peculiar requirement of straight beams has been considered."
Etymology
From Middle English laberynt, laberynthe, from Latin labyrinthus, from Ancient Greek λᾰβύρῐνθος (lăbúrĭnthos, “a maze”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: laberynt, labyrinthus, λᾰβύρῐνθος