Usually means: Unknown puzzle waiting to be solved.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word mystery:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. mystery: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mystery, mystery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mystery, mystery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mystery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mystery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mystery, mystery: Wordnik
  7. mystery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mystery: Dictionary.com
  9. mystery (1), mystery (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. mystery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. 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
  12. Mystery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. mystery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. mystery: Rhymezone
  15. mystery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. mystery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. Mystery: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. mystery: Free Dictionary
  19. mystery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. mystery: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. mystery: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. mystery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  23. mystery: Infoplease Dictionary
  24. Mystery: Dictionary.com
  25. mystery: Wiktionary
  26. 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 (
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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 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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