Riddle

Word RIDDLE
Character 6
Hyphenation rid dle
Pronunciations /ˈɹɪdəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Riddle"

What do we mean by riddle?

A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.

An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.

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The word "riddle" in example sentences

But the riddle is usually about, what is the truth? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Not only do the congregants not understand that the solution to the riddle is the basic tenet of their faith, but more important, they fail to recognize that Alroy is quite literally the answer to their prayers. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The "riddle" is here identical with the "parable," only that the former refers to the obscurity, the latter to the likeness of the figure to the thing compared. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The second, more interesting riddle is not yet adequately resolved: what does Mikel actually do? ❋ Paul Doyle (2010)

Another riddle is found and Batman deduces that Gordon will die. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He concluded, as has Winchester, that the riddle is of less consequence these days. ❋ Unknown (2008)

RoboPanda says: there must be a scene in the movie in which an ancient riddle is solved or a booby trap avoided through knowledge of show tunes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The riddle is solvable by pure logic without assumptions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think that you guys all think about it too much. the whole point of the riddle is to find out who owns THE fish, meaning that there IS a fish and someone MUST own it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The aim of riddle is finding who owns fish right?. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The number of those who have applied their ingenuity to the solution of the riddle is large. ❋ Unknown (1966)

I set it down at first, to your fascinations, but the riddle is read now, - it was this secret, and indeed it was one worth telling. ❋ Unknown (1845)

Samson's riddle is here again unriddled: Out of the eater comes forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The form of the riddle is left in an unsolvable form, where the German can have any pet in the set of all pets that is not a dog, a cat, a bird, or a horse. while it's wonderful that some people feel the need to brad about "solving" the riddle in their head, there is no reason that this is the "proper" way to go about trying to solve the riddle. furthermore, it's rather blatantly ignorant of people to say that it's stupid to question the existence of the fish. one should never take something that is part of a question as a given. ❋ Unknown (2007)

While the enormous wealth of the mineral deposits on the east shore of the lake cars no longer be in doubt, the important question of transportation still remains to be solved and the answer to that riddle is of the utmost importance to everyone in Canada, because it must be remembered that this great mineral area does not belong to any province but to every one in this country because of the fact that it is in the North West Territory. ❋ Unknown (1933)

Good to see Havock’s curtain riddle got answered here … ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anonymous thinks .. but if you were going by pure facts, you would say that the riddle is unsolvable. so either the german owns the fish, it's unsolvable, or einstein was bad at making riddles;) ❋ Unknown (2007)

I desired to hear every thing she had said or insinuated, — but I desired it in vain; nor did I much care for it, as the riddle was already solved. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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