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 Translation for 'riddle' from English to Dutch
NOUN   a riddle | riddles
VERB   to riddle | riddled | riddled
riddling | riddles
SYNO brain-teaser | conundrum | enigma | ...
raadsel {het}riddle
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Translation for 'riddle' from English to Dutch

riddle
raadsel {het}
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Usage Examples English
  • The titles contain a riddle, a series of letters picked out in red which spell out the title of a small but eye-catching item in the library's collection.
  • The missing dollar riddle is a famous riddle that involves an informal fallacy. It dates to at least the 1930s, although similar puzzles are much older.
  • The year-riddle is one of the most widespread, and apparently most ancient, international riddle-types in Eurasia.
  • One of the Old English riddles of the Exeter book is a variations on the writing-riddle: Exeter Book Riddle 51.
  • S: A riddle, a riddle, what is it?

  • Until recently there has been little work on this riddle.
  • The neck riddle is a riddle where the riddler (typically a hero in a folk tale) gains something with the help of an unsolvable riddle.
  • A riddle joke, joke riddle, pseudo-joke or conundrum is a riddle that does not expect the asked person to know the answer, but rather constitutes a set-up to the humorous punch line of the joke.
  • Finally, considering the many questions that remain regarding the composition, it could be seen in a tradition of "riddle music", somewhere between the riddle canons of Bach's "The Musical Offering" and Elgar's "Enigma Variations".
  • A riddle in Old English, written using runic script, features on the Franks Casket. The riddle's solution is 'whale', evoking the whale-bone from which the casket made.

  • Peter Kennedy observed a similar instrument in Dorset and Wiltshire in the 1950s, where it was known as a "riddle drum", a riddle being a large sieve for separating soil particles from stones etc.
  • Participants were given 3 minutes to respond to each riddle, before the answer to the riddle was revealed.
  • The "Epistola" is best known today for including one hundred hexametrical riddles, which Aldhelm included for purposes of illustration of metrical principles.
  • Some of the riddles which in their earliest witness are attributed to Dunash are found in later manuscripts and editions attributed to other poets.
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