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navel

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"Belly button"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈneɪvəl/Part of speech nounSorted aelnvStarts with NEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a scar where the umbilical cord was attached

Word origin

From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (“navel”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl (“navel”), diminutive of *h₃nebʰ- (“hub; navel”).

Used in a sentence

  • Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells, Of Bacchus and Circe born, great Comus
  • Sweeter than the muſk of Tatar, the morning breeze from the navel of every flower raviſhed perfume.
  • We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]

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