omphalos
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- noun
- /ˈɑmfələs/
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ombligo
- Omphalos, Brian thought.
Examples
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From the moon's near hemisphere, the giant planet will appear fixed in the sky; if you're on the point nearest the planet (the capital city of Omphalos), the giant will always be directly overhead.
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The Omphalos Stone marks the center of the Earth.
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It was here that I learned of the Omphalos Stone.
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This Omphalos, and the forty-two structures like it around the world, were not beloved by the general population.
Fiction book (1993) -
Omphalos.
Fiction book (1996) -
Omphalos, Otis thought.
Fiction book (1990) -
It's a variant of the Omphalos approach: the world does indeed look the way it does (contra naive Creationism), but the way it looks is deceptive.
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Last November, the piece of the Omphalos cross was sold to a mysterious, unidentified party, and in April the piece of the Santa Hermina cross was removed from its crypt by undiscovered culprits, as was the Hermitage piece.
Fiction book (1997) -
(7) Philip S. Alexander, "Jerusalem as the Omphalos of the World: On the History of a Geographical Concept," in Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, ed. Lee I. Levine (New York, 1999), 112.
Academic text (2018) -
The omphalos of a newborn baby is usually a small scar on the abdomen.
Synonyms
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A small round mark on the stomach where the baby was attached before birth
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The small scar in the middle of the belly where you were joined to your mother before birth
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A small round scar on the belly where the baby's cord attaches before birth
A small round mark in the middle of the belly where the umbilical cord was attached
Surface Forms
Etymology
Omphalos comes from an old Greek word meaning 'navel' and 'center'. Ancient Greeks placed a special stone called the omphalos at what they thought was the world's 'center', so today the word can mean the belly 'scar' where the umbilical cord was and also a symbolic center.