Usually means: Unknown puzzle waiting to be solved.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word Mystery:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. mystery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mystery: Merriam-Webster
  3. mystery, mystery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mystery, mystery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mystery: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mystery: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mystery, mystery: Wordnik
  8. mystery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mystery: Dictionary.com
  10. mystery (1), mystery (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. mystery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Mystery (Faye Wong album), Mystery (Live song), Mystery (Mystery EP), Mystery (RAH Band album), Mystery (Vanilla Fudge album), Mystery (band), Mystery (disambiguation), Mystery (fiction), Mystery (genre), Mystery (lugger), Mystery (novel), Mystery (pickup artist), Mystery, Mystery, The Mystery (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Mystery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. mystery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. mystery: Rhymezone
  16. mystery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. mystery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Mystery: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. mystery: FreeDictionary.org
  20. mystery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mystery: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. mystery: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. mystery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  24. mystery: Infoplease Dictionary
  25. Mystery: Dictionary.com
  26. mystery: Wiktionary
  27. mystery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mystery: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Mystery: Literary Terms
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mystery (fiction), mystery: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mystery (disambiguation), Mystery (fiction), mystery: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. mystery: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mystery: Easton Bible
  2. Mystery: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mystery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Mystery, the Mystery: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mysteries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mystery)

noun:  Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
noun:  Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
noun:  An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred.
noun:  A mystery play.
noun:  (obsolete) A secret or mystical meaning.
noun:  A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid).
noun:  (archaic outside Eastern Orthodoxy) A sacrament.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation.
noun:  (Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.
noun:  (archaic) A craft, art or trade; specifically a guild of craftsmen.

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