navel

Examples

• All

• There's a small hole in the poster where her navel used to be.

  Fiction book (1994)

• He felt a sharp pain near his navel, causing him to seek medical advice.

• Leaving your eyes closed, put your right hand on your navel and your left hand on your heart.

  Stanford

• Get in tight on the navel.

  The China Syndrome (1979)

• "Gently rub into the navel."

  Bachelor Mother (1939)

• So that even when the navel healed, it still stuck out.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The taller ones come up to the navel.

  Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

• On her abdomen, to the right of her navel and an inch or so lower.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Did you know that your darling little navel holds exactly one teaspoon of wine for a lover to lap?

  Fiction book (1995)

• Traditional Hindu texts place the second chakra just below the navel, where it is said to govern the sexual organs.

  Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

B

belly button

vsnavel

24 1.0

A small round mark on the stomach where the baby was attached before birth

is the standard everyday label rather than a technical or poetic term

B

bellybutton

vsnavel

11 1.0

A small round mark in the middle of your stomach where the cord from your mother was attached

is the simple common expression rather than a formal anatomical name

U

umbilicus

vsnavel

• Specialized

3 9.3

A small round scar on the belly where the baby's cord attaches before birth

is the everyday English term rather than the precise anatomical term

O

omphalos

vsnavel

1 9.9

The small scar on the belly where the umbilical cord was attached

is the neutral modern term, not the literary or classical form

U

umbilic

vsnavel

• Specialized

9.1

The belly button at the front of the body or a central point on a surface

is the general common word, not a technical or geometric label

O

omphalus

vsnavel

• Archaic

9.9

A small round mark in the middle of the belly where the umbilical cord was attached

is the everyday word rather than an archaic or scholarly form

Compounds

N

navel orange

1 2.2

A seedless orange with a small navel-like bump at the top

N

navel-gazer

• Offensive

1 9.6

A person who spends too much time thinking about their own feelings and ignores other people

N

navel-gazing

• Informal

1 8.8

Spending too much time thinking only about yourself instead of other important things

N

navel point

8.5

A central point people treat as the main focus

Surface Forms

Etymology