ethos

1. 1.

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

   “the Greek ethos”

   Broaderattribute

   anthropology

Other forms of ethos

plural

ethoses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ethos

What does ethos mean?

ethos means "(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era".

How many syllables are in ethos?

ethos has 2 syllables: e-thos. The stress falls on "e". In IPA it is /ˈiθɑs/.

Is ethos a common word?

ethos is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.