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Usually means: Something difficult to explain or understand
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word mystery:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mystery: Merriam-Webster
  2. mystery: Wordnik
  3. mystery: Cambridge Essential British English Dictionary
  4. mystery: Cambridge English Dictionary
  5. mystery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  6. mystery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. mystery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  8. mystery, mystery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  9. mystery: Collins English Dictionary
  10. mystery: Vocabulary.com
  11. mystery: Dictionary.com
  12. mystery (1), mystery (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. mystery: Rhymezone (WordNet)
  14. mystery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. mystery: TheFreeDictionary.com (American Heritage)
  16. mystery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  17. mystery: Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997)
  18. Mystery: Dictionary.com
  19. mystery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  20. mystery: Oxford English Dictionary

General (historical) (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. mystery (1755), mystery (1773): Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
  2. MYSTERY: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
  3. mystery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  4. mystery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  5. Mystery: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

User-edited (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. mystery: Wiktionary
  2. Mystery (Yoga Lin album), Mystery (Vanilla Fudge album), Mystery (Turnstile song), Mystery (RAH Band album), Mystery (pickup artist), Mystery (novel), Mystery (newspaper), Mystery (Mystery EP), Mystery (Live song), Mystery (genre), Mystery (fiction), Mystery (Faye Wong album), Mystery (disambiguation), Mystery (BLK JKS EP), Mystery (band), Mystery (2012 film), Mystery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Mystery, the Mystery: Urban Dictionary
  4. mystery: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

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

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

(Note: See mysteries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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 religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid).
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:  A mystery play.
noun:  (archaic) A craft, art or trade; specifically a guild of craftsmen.
noun:  (archaic outside Eastern Orthodoxy) A sacrament.
noun:  (obsolete) A secret or mystical meaning.

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