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General dictionaries General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gordian knot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. Gordian knot: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  3. Gordian knot: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  4. Gordian knot: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  5. Gordian knot: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  6. Gordian knot: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. Gordian knot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Gordian knot: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. gordian knot: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  10. Gordian knot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  11. Gordian knot, the Gordian knot: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. Gordian knot: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. Gordian knot: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. Gordian Knot (album), Gordian Knot (band), Gordian Knot (disambiguation), Gordian Knot (software), Gordian Knot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Gordian knot: Rhymezone [home, info]
  16. Gordian Knot: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  17. gordian knot: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  18. gordian knot: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  19. gordian knot: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  20. Gordian knot: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  21. Gordian knot: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  22. Gordian knot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gordian knot: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gordian knot: Political [home, info]
  2. Gordian knot: A Word A Day [home, info]
  3. Gordian Knot: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Gordian Knot, The Gordian Knot: A Glossary of Mathematical Terms [home, info]


Quick definitions from WordNet (Gordian knot)

▸ noun:  an intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia
▸ noun:  any very difficult problem; insoluble in its own terms
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