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/ˈɒmfəlɒs/ · noun
An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world..
—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.”
Use omphalos when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Omphalos means An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world..
Common synonyms include navel, umbilicus, omphalus, bellybutton.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
—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.
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