ETHOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ethos mean? 

• ETHOS (noun)
  The noun ETHOS has 1 sense:

1. (anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era

  Familiarity information: ETHOS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETHOS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the Greek ethos

Hypernyms ("ethos" is a kind of...):

attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)

Domain category:

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

 Context examples 

Established in 1989 by a collection of the world's leading human geneticists, the primary ethos of the Human Genome Organisation is to promote and sustain international collaboration in the field of human genetics.

(Human Genome Organisation, NCI Thesaurus)