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means A labyrinth of pathways cut into a cornfield, designed as a seasonal attraction where visitors pay to navigate their way through (and often get cheerfully lost) using turns, dead ends, and corn-wall sightlines.

from Straightforward compound: 'corn,' the New World grain (maize), plus 'maze,' from Old English 'mase,' tied to being dazed or confused — same root family that gives us 'amaze.' The corn maze itself is a fairly modern agritourism invention: farmers in the late 20th century realized that a field of tall, cheap-to-grow corn could be cut with paths — often via GPS-plotted designs — and turned into a fall attraction. So the word is old, but the thing it names is young: a farming economy hack dressed up as recreation.