1 a system of paths separated by walls or HEDGES built in a park or garden, that is designed so that it is difficult to find your way through:
We got lost in the maze. * (figurative) The building is a maze of corridors. * The old city is a delightful maze for the modern tourist.
compareLABYRINTH
2 [usuallysing.] a large number of complicated rules or details that are difficult to understand:
Many applicants for the grant are put off by the maze of regulations and conditions. * a maze of regulations
3 (AmE) a printed PUZZLE in which you have to draw a line that shows a way through a complicated pattern of lines
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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