Usually means: Problem requiring thought to solve.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word puzzle:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. puzzle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. puzzle: Merriam-Webster
  3. puzzle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. puzzle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. puzzle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. puzzle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Puzzle, puzzle: Wordnik
  8. puzzle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. puzzle: Wiktionary
  10. puzzle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. puzzle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. puzzle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Puzzle, puzzle: Dictionary.com
  14. puzzle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. puzzle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Puzzle (Biffy Clyro album), Puzzle (CNBLUE song), Puzzle (Dada album), Puzzle (Gianna Nannini album), Puzzle (Kanjani Eight album), Puzzle (Narnia), Puzzle (artist), Puzzle (disambiguation), Puzzle, The Puzzle (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Puzzle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. puzzle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. puzzle: Rhymezone
  20. Puzzle (nt), puzzle, puzzle, puzzle (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. puzzle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. puzzle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. puzzle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. puzzle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PUZZLE: Band Terms

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Puzzle: Management Dictionary
  2. puzzle: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Puzzle: Game Dictionary
  2. puzzle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. puzzle: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Puzzle: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puzzle, puzzle, puzzle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See puzzled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
noun:  A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
noun:  A crossword puzzle.
noun:  A jigsaw puzzle.
noun:  A riddle.
noun:  (archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
noun:  The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
verb:  (transitive) To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.
verb:  (intransitive) To think long and carefully in bewilderment.
verb:  (transitive) To make intricate or difficult to resolve; to entangle.

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