OMPHALOS Definition & Meaning

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omphalos

[om-fuh-luhs]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

the navel; umbilicus.
the central point.
Greek Antiquity.��a stone in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, thought to mark the center of the earth.

omphalos

/ ˈɒ��əˌ��ɒ�� /

(in the ancient world) a sacred conical object, esp a stone. The most famous omphalos at Delphi was assumed to mark the centre of the earth
the central point
literary��another word for navel

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1840–50; < Greek �ǳ��󲹱�ó��; akin to navel

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Greek: navel

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But for classical music, it’s the very omphalos, everything’s sort of seated, and it’s the hub.

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All day long she sat over a hole in the ground, the omphalos, the navel of the earth, breathing petrochemical fumes escaping from underneath.

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On the right, the god is seated on the omphalos, holding up his right hand.

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Yes; but if not of the earth, for earth's tenant Jerusalem was the omphalos of mortality.

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This last summer he made a tour through the centre of the island, and obtained boreal shells at Buchlyvie in Stirlingshire,—the omphalos of Scotland.

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