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Definition of Omphalos
1. Noun. A scar where the umbilical cord was attached. "She had a tattoo just above her bellybutton"
Group relationships: Abdomen, Belly, Stomach, Venter
Generic synonyms: Point
Derivative terms: Umbilical
Definition of Omphalos
1. n. The navel.
Definition of Omphalos
1. Noun. An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world. ¹
2. Noun. The theological proposition that the world was created with certain indicia of a history which had not actually occurred (such as the humans who had never been connected to umbilical cords being created with navels). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Omphalos
1. a central point [n -LI]
Medical Definition of Omphalos
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Omphalos
Literary usage of Omphalos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Studies Presented to William Ridgeway ... on His Sixtieth by Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1914)
"to the omphalos of the city, smoking with incense, where many feet are ...
The wildest is perhaps that the 'omphalos' was a 'poetical phrase for the ..."
2. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"... Der omphalos tits Zeus zu Delphi, pi. ; Th. Schreiber, Bilderatlas, pi. xii.
12; Journal of Hellenic Studies, 9 (1888), p. ..."
3. Essays on the Art of Pheidias by Charles Waldstein (1885)
"It would be different if the foot-marks on the omphalos did really, ... In the
first place, the feet, as indicated on the omphalos, would be too small for ..."
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