backbone

backbone is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 22 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.
2. noun. Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
3. noun. Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.
4. noun. the part of a network that connects other networks together

   "the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic"

5. noun. the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved

   "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book"

   Synonyms: spine

6. noun. fortitude and determination

   "he didn't have the guts to try it"

   Synonyms: grit, gumption, guts, moxie, sand

7. noun. the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

   "the fall broke his back"

   Synonyms: back, rachis, spine

8. noun. a central cohesive source of support and stability

   "faith is his anchor"

   "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"

   Synonyms: anchor, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay

Synonyms

spine, grit, gumption, guts, moxie, sand, back, rachis, anchor, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay

Common word forms

backboned, backbones, backboneless

Words from these letters

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