Crossword-Solution: OMPHALOS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Omphalos | n. | The navel. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “OMPHALOS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CENTRAL point of a system | 1 answer |
| Navel | 4 answers |
| Umbilicus | 5 answers |
| Belly button | 11 answers |
| belly-button | 11 answers |
| Nucleus | 12 answers |
| CENTRAL point | 18 answers |
| sacred place | 26 answers |
| Hub | 32 answers |
| centre | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OMPHALOS (5)
Every one who knows Bideford cannot but know Bideford bridge; for it is the very omphalos, cynosure, and soul, around which the town, as a body, has organized itself; and as Edinburgh is Edinburgh by virtue of its castle, Rome Rome by virtue of its capitol, and Egypt Egypt by virtue of its pyramids, so is Bideford Bideford by virtue of its bridge.
This 'Omphalos' of his, he thought, was to bring all the turmoil of scientific speculation to a close, fling geology into the arms of Scripture, and make the lion eat grass with the lamb.
From which _omphalos_ or hub of the universe he will direct his shining team even to the far Hesperides of Richmond or of Windsor.
What then was Jerusalem? Did I fancy it to be the _omphalos_ (navel) or physical centre of the earth? Why should _that_ affect me? Such a pretension had once been made for Jerusalem, and once for a Grecian city; and both pretensions had become ridiculous, as the figure of the planet became known.
Yes; but if not of the earth, yet of mortality; for earth's tenant, Jerusalem, had now become the _omphalos_ and absolute centre.
Quotes with OMPHALOS (1)
But what are they?” Annie asked.“An omphalos, probably,” said Jacob.“A what, dear?” Melinda asked.“A bellybutton of the world.”“I didn’t know it had one.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1991–2006).