Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.
- 2noun
Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
- 3noun
Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.
- 4noun
the part of a network that connects other networks together
"the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic"
- 5noun
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"
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- 6noun
fortitude and determination
"he didn't have the guts to try it"
- 7noun
the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
"the fall broke his back"
- 8noun
a central cohesive source of support and stability
"faith is his anchor"
"the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"
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