belly button

Questions about belly button

What does belly button mean?

belly button means "a scar where the umbilical cord was attached".

What is another word for belly button?

Close synonyms include navel, umbilicus, bellybutton, omphalos, omphalus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is belly button a common word?

belly button is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.