Synonyms for back bone
Most common
decision resolution sand firmness spine vertebral column skeleton
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Firmness — courage, fortitude, or strength
firmness, moxie informal US, decision, resolution, sand, courage, stability, nerve, guts, grit, stamina, fortitude, pluck, gumption, mettle, spunk, hardihood rare
2. Vertebral column
vertebral column, spine, spinal column, back, rachis, cervical spine
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
Courage, fortitude, or strength.
He would make a good manager, if he had a little more backbone.
- n. 2
The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.
- n. 3
Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
Before automobiles, railroads were a backbone of commerce.
Related words
- Word family
- backboned
- Other spellings
- back-bone backbone
Example sentences
- decision The decision was put off, which pleased all of us.
- resolution The resolution that a new road be built was passed.
- sand The affection of the lowly is like a wall of sand.
- spine They had to remove a bullet lodged near his spine.
By length
- 4 letters
- back1, sand1, guts1, grit1
- 5 letters
- nerve1, spine1, pluck1, spunk1, moxie2
- 6 letters
- anchor2, mettle2, rachis
- 7 letters
- courage2, stamina3
- 8 letters
- decision3, skeleton3, keystone2, mainstay2, firmness2, gumption2, linchpin2
- 9 letters
- stability4, fortitude3, hardihood
- 10 letters
- resolution4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (moxie2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- épine dorsale
- Italiano
- spina dorsale
- Deutsch
- Rückgrat