esprit de corps

1. 1.

   the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed

   Synonymsmoraleteam spirit

   Broaderdisposition

Questions about esprit de corps

What does esprit de corps mean?

esprit de corps means "the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed".

What is another word for esprit de corps?

Close synonyms include morale, team spirit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is esprit de corps a common word?

esprit de corps is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.