[ˈiːθɒs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations
(e.g: a challenge to the ethos of the 1960s)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 17th century (denoting characterization in the context of art or rhetoric, contrasting with pathos): from Latin ‘character, depiction of character’, from Greek ēthos ‘disposition, character’, (plural) ‘customs’