maze
[noun]
Synonyms:
- labyrinth
- web, confusion, imbroglio, tangle

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Related Words: fog, haze, gordian knot, conglomeration, hodgepodge, miscellany, mishmash

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

maze /meɪz/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1200-1300; Origin: maze 'to confuse' (13-19 centuries), probably from unrecorded Old English masian]

1. a complicated and confusing arrangement of streets, roads etc
maze of streets/paths/tunnels etc
the maze of narrow streets
I was led through a maze of corridors.

2. a large number of rules, instructions etc which are complicated and difficult to understand
maze of rules/regulations etc
a maze of new laws

3. a specially designed system of paths, often in a park or public garden, which is difficult to find your way through:
We got completely lost in the maze.
the famous Hampton Court maze

4. a children’s game, played on paper, in which you try to draw a line through a complicated group of lines without crossing any of them

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

maze
noun
ADJ. complex, intricate, tortuous
VERB + MAZE be/get lost in | find your way through He found his way through the complex maze of corridors.
PREP. in a/the ~, through a/the ~ I followed him through a maze of narrow alleys.
~ of I was lost in a maze of passages.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲