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I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.
Blake Bailey

Meaning of "ethos" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ETHOS

From Late Latin: habit, from Greek.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ETHOS

ethos  [ˈiːθɒs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ETHOS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ethos is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ETHOS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ethos

Ethos is a Greek word meaning "character" that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology. The Greeks also used this word to refer to the power of music to influence its hearer's emotions, behaviours, and even morals. Early Greek stories of Orpheus exhibit this idea in a compelling way. The word's use in rhetoric is closely based on the Greek terminology used by Aristotle in his concept of the three artistic proofs.

Definition of ethos in the English dictionary

The definition of ethos in the dictionary is the distinctive character, spirit, and attitudes of a people, culture, era, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ETHOS


acolouthos
ˌækəˈluːθɒs
Athos
ˈæθɒs
bathos
ˈbeɪθɒs
benthos
ˈbɛnθɒs
lekythos
ˈliːkɪˌθɒs
mythos
ˈmaɪθɒs
pathos
ˈpeɪθɒs
phytobenthos
ˌfaɪtəʊˈbɛnθɒs
pithos
ˈpɪθɒs
Zakynthos
zəˈkuːnθɒs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ETHOS

ethnonym
ethnos
ethnoscience
ethogram
ethologic
ethological
ethologically
ethologist
ethology
ethonone
ethoxide
ethoxy
ethoxyethane
ethoxyl
ethyl
ethyl acetate
ethyl alcohol
ethyl carbamate
ethyl ether
ethylamine

WORDS THAT END LIKE ETHOS

akolouthos
akoluthos
alloiostrophos
dolichos
kolkhos
leptophos
Matosinhos
Matozinhos
mesobenthos
Mount Athos
Niarchos
Paphos
promachos
Sheva Brochos
skyphos
stichos

Synonyms and antonyms of ethos in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ETHOS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ethos» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ethos

Translation of «ethos» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ETHOS

Find out the translation of ethos to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ethos from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ethos» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 理念
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

valores
570 millions of speakers

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ethos
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लोकाचार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

روح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

этос
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sistema de valores
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তত্ত্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

philosophie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Etos
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ethos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

気風
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기풍
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ethos
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

văn tả phong tục
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பண்பாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एखाद्या संस्कृतीचे गुणविशेष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kültür
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

etica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

etos
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

етос
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ethos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ήθος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

etos
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ethos
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ethos
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ethos

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ETHOS»

The term «ethos» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.592 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ETHOS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ethos

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10 QUOTES WITH «ETHOS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ethos.
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Blake Bailey
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.
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Kathleen Battle
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.
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Alison Bechdel
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
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Billy Boyd
I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.
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Tina Brown
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
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Nayvadius Cash
That's that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your own image, no matter what they say about you. I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It's something different.
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Paul Di Filippo
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos.
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Laurence Fishburne
I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.
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Clark Gregg
When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.
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Glenn Hubbard
I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ETHOS»

Discover the use of ethos in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ethos and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Warrior Ethos:
The Warrior Ethos is intended not only for men and women in uniform, but artists, entrepreneurs and other warriors in other walks of life. The book examines the evolution of the warrior code of honor and "mental toughness.
Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne, 2011
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The Ethos of Rhetoric
Together the contributors define ethical discourse and describe what its practice looks like in particular communities.
Michael J. Hyde, 2004
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Identity, Ethics, and Ethos in the New Testament
Review text: "This volume provides an exceptional overview of ethics in all of the New Testament. Further scholarly discussion of New Testament ethics cannot afford to ignore this collection of essays.
Jan Gabriël Van der Watt, Francois Stephanus Malan, 2006
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Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics ...
Noting that academic biblical scholars and Christian ethicists have been methodologically estranged for some decades now, Brian Brock seeks to reframe the whole Bible-and-ethics discussion in terms of this question: What role does the Bible ...
Brian Brock, 2007
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Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History ...
Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic ­­­material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late ...
P. Wenzel Geissler, Catherine Molyneux, 2011
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The Warrior Ethos: Military Culture and the War on Terror
This is the first scholarly book to look at the role of the 'warrior' in modern war, arguing that warriors' actions, and indeed thoughts, are increasingly patrolled and that the modern battlefield is an unforgiving environment in which to ...
Christopher Coker, 2007
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Myth, Ethos, and Actuality: Official Art in Fifth-century ...
The book looks in new ways at how the patrons and planners sought to manipulate viewer response through the selective presentation or repackaging of mythic traditions.
David Castriota, 1992
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THE ETHOS OF A LATE-MODERN CITIZEN
In The Ethos of a Late-Modern Citizen, Stephen K. White contends that Western democracies face novel challenges demanding our reexamination of the role of citizens.
Stephen K. White, 2009
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The Ethos of the Cosmos: The Genesis of Moral Imagination in ...
This groundbreaking work investigates how the various pictures of creation found in Scripture helped shape the ancient faith community's moral character.
William P. Brown, 1999
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Chicanismo: The Forging of a Militant Ethos Among Mexican ...
In Chicanismo, the first intellectual history of the Chicano Movement and the militant ethos that emerged from it, Ignacio Garcia traces the development of the philosophical strains that guided the movement.
Ignacio M. Garc’a, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ETHOS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ethos is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ethos La Bala Electric is one more quixotic EV hopeful
The company is Juneau, Alaska-based Ethos Electric Vehicles and its goal is to make an electric vehicle that can be priced as low as $28,000. «Autoblog, Jul 15»
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Images: US Marines refine combat skills, build on warrior ethos
ARABIAN GULF (July 6, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Paul Kainz fires at his target on the move during a short-range marksmanship ... «DVIDS, Jul 15»
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KDDL Ltd. subsidiary Ethos closes two stores
The company has closed the store Ethos unit CR2, Unit No.-13,14, 23 & 24, Plot Nos. 240/240A, Backbay Reclamation, Block No.- Ill, Nariman ... «Equity Bulls, Jul 15»
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Adkin hails East Grinstead's team ethos on a winning weekend
IT WAS a good weekend for East Grinstead as they won in the league and progressed to the semi-final of the Sussex T20 Cup. Grinstead ... «East Grinstead Courier & Observer, Jul 15»
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When is a faith school not a faith school?
Meanwhile, there was, and still is, great diversity within VA and VC schools in terms of how robustly they promote their religious ethos and how ... «National Secular Society, Jul 15»
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Listen To East London Rapper Rageouz' New EP 'Ethos'
On the captivating and authentic 8-track 'Ethos' EP, Rageouz delivers some of his most mature, soulful, honest, and relatable records to date, ... «The Source, Jul 15»
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As it Grows, Local Dance Theater Company Moving Ethos Prepares …
SARASOTA — On the eve of giving its newest project its Sarasota debut at downtown's Urbanite Theater, dance theater company Moving Ethos ... «The Bradenton Times, Jul 15»
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The Christian ethos
On Christianity and following the Christian ethos, how many vicars and priests have had their background discovered and in so doing made the ... «Swindon Advertiser, Jul 15»
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Tommy Conlon: Tear up ethos to liberate victims of geographical …
It is enshrined in Chapter 6 of the GAA's Official Guide, under the sub-heading Transfers and Declarations - Association's Ethos. "As the Gaelic ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
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West Brom boss Tony Pulis changed the dressing room ethos - Tony …
He changed the dressing room and brought in an ethos of team work. “And for me it has always been about team work. I heard Tony speak ... «Birmingham Mail, Jul 15»

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