Cobweb: meaning, definitions and examples

Often used to describe old, dusty spider webs that are found in abandoned or rarely used spaces.

• The old attic was full of cobwebs.
• She brushed away the cobwebs from the corner of the room.

Refers specifically to the intricate structure created by spiders and is often used in scientific or natural contexts.

• A beautiful spider web glistened in the morning dew.
• He watched a spider weaving a spider web between two branches.

Can refer to any woven structure created by spiders, as well as metaphorically to any complex system or network, such as the internet.

• The internet is often called the web.
• The spider caught a fly in its web.

Usually refers to something being very complicated or a situation where things are mixed together and hard to separate. It can also have a more abstract or metaphorical sense.

• Her feelings were a complicated entanglement.
• The legal entanglement lasted for years.