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backbonenoun a column of bones supporting the trunk of a vertebrate animalfound the backbone of a fish lying on the beach the strength of mind that enables a person to endure pain or hardshipit takes backbone to stand up to the kind of suffering that some cancer patients must endure constancy, fiber, fortitude, grit, grittiness, guts, intestinal fortitude, pluck, spunk determination, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolutionbravery, courage, courageousness, daring, dauntlessness, doughtiness, fearlessness, gallantry, greatheartedness, intrepidity, intrepidness, nerve, stoutness, valorendurance, forbearance, stamina, sufferance, toleranceheart, mettle, spiritaudacity, boldness, brass, cheek, chutzpah(also chutzpa or hutzpah or hutzpa), effrontery, gall, hardihood, nerve, nerviness, temerity spinelessness indecisiveness, irresoluteness, irresolution, vacillationcowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faintheartedness, pusillanimity, timidity, timorousness in the 14th century |