• n.
    ⦿a central cohesive source of support and stability
    lexical concept
  • faith is his anchor
  • he is the linchpin of this firm
  • the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:anchor
  2. enl:backbone
  3. enl:keystone
  4. enl:linchpin
  5. enl:lynchpin
  6. enl:mainstay
wn:interlingual indexili:i66838

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelanchorbackbonekeystonelinchpinlynchpinmainstay