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omphalos

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈɒmfəlɒs/Part of speech nounSorted ahlmoopsStarts with OEnds with S0 clues
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  1. a scar where the umbilical cord was attached

Word origin

From Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel”). Doublet of navel.

Used in a sentence

  • —Rather bleak in wintertime, I should say. Martello you call it? —Billy Pitt had them built, Buck Mulligan said, when the French were on the sea. But ours is the omphalos.
  • Here I was, embosomed in the very nave, the very omphalos of furtive femininity—a prize patron of the women's restaurant, a member, privy to its innermost secrets.
  • The place in which this statue stood, Malalas writes, was called “the omphalos of the city.”

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