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Meanings of riddle in English
Statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.
Any problem where the answer is very complex, possibly unsolvable without deep investigation.
Usage of riddle in English
1
Not so; you used the riddle and I but spoke in kind.
2
For two days I'd carried the riddle of Project Nemesis inside me.
3
How had he not been able to work out this riddle earlier?
4
And in the riddle of Cleobulus, one of the seven wise men:
5
One day Ish heard him asking a riddle of the other children.
6
The return of the dead is the eternal riddle of the living.
7
Nevertheless, intimacy represents an enigmatic riddle for the majority of these men.
8
In the Berkeley Court hotel in Dublin yesterday, it was riddle time.
9
All questioning was vain; her heart gave no solution of the riddle.
10
He opened the door wider to the nocturnal riddle of the house.
11
We can't forget to carry that forward, one riddle to the next.
12
In this way I made a start at working out the riddle.
13
There is something, after all, in the unguessed riddle of the Sphinx.
14
This error alone gave him now an opportunity to unravel the riddle.
15
Once a supernational riddle appears, it's really up to the technical types-
16
He himself did not find the solution of the riddle at once.
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Translations for riddle
Russian
Riddle through the time
Riddle across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common