Usually means: Center or hub of something.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word omphalos:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. omphalos: Merriam-Webster
  2. omphalos: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. omphalos: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. omphalos: Collins English Dictionary
  5. omphalos: Vocabulary.com
  6. Omphalos, omphalos: Wordnik
  7. omphalos: Wiktionary
  8. omphalos: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. omphalos: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. omphalos: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. omphalos: Dictionary.com
  12. omphalos: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Omphalos (book), Omphalos (disambiguation), Omphalos (film), Omphalos: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Omphalos: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. omphalos: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. omphalos: Rhymezone
  17. Omphalos: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. omphalos: FreeDictionary.org
  19. omphalos: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. omphalos: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. omphalos: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. omphalos: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. omphalos: Global Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Omphalos (stone), omphalos: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. omphalos: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Omphalos: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Omphalos (stone), omphalos: Medical dictionary
  5. Omphalos: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. omphalos: A Word A Day
  2. omphalos: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. omphalos: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (omphalos)

noun:  An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world.
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).
noun:  The navel.
noun:  A raised central point; a boss.
noun:  The center or hub.

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