labyrinth Definition

labyrinth
noun

1. A highly complex network of interconnected, sometimes underground, passages and chambers designed to be difficult to find one's way around.
2. Anything that is complicated, intricate or difficult to negotiate.

Example: a labyrinth of tiny cobbled back streets
Thesaurus: maze, puzzle, riddle, complexity, convolution, entanglement, intricacy, complication.
3. anatomy.
The complex arrangement of membranous and bony structures that form the organs of hearing and balance in the inner ear of vertebrates.
4. electronics.
A loudspeaker enclosure whose function is to absorb certain unwanted sound waves.
5. A maze.

Etymology: 14c: from Greek labyrinthos, originally applied to the legendary structure that Daedalus was said to have built for King Minos in Crete, which in 20c is usually believed to be a folk-memory of the intricate palace of Knossos itself.