ethos
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- noun
- /ˈiːθoʊs/
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ethos
- Her personal ethos is based on honesty and integrity in all aspects of life.
- the ethos of expectations
- the ethos of male dominance
- the ethos of gender
Do you think it's good to live life by the ethos of never Quit?
- Do you think it's good to live life by the ethos of never Quit?
- That's part of the ethos of the religion.
- So yeah, it's the, the ethos was there, the work ethic was there.
- So those are your shop, your shop rules, your shop ethos that developed over time.
- I mean, just go to living standards or, or the ethos, the guiding ethos.
- It's basically about how ideas and ethos are transmitted within a society.
- Anti colonialism, anti imperialism is the ethos of the world at this point.
- This is an ethos of conservation.
- What in your world, what is the warrior ethos?
- And of course, you know, stop promoting the disposable fashion ethos that they encourage with their products.
- I'm not sure that the underlying, if not Christian then culturally Christian ethos is reproducible.
- What is its guiding ethos and is it as successful as success Academy?
- They're changing the ethos into this.
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I think patient centric care is really the ethos of primary care.
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That's part of the ethos of the religion.
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So those are your shop, your shop rules, your shop ethos that developed over time.
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Do you think it's good to live life by the ethos of never Quit?
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To respect this beautiful ethos, we have to tackle hate crime.
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They will bring their culture, their ethos into the regular space.
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The central ethos of all of improv is yes.
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They took that culture, that ethos back to El Salvador in Central America.
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Anti colonialism, anti imperialism is the ethos of the world at this point.
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That's, that's, that's the ethos of, of the charity.
Synonyms
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Moral rules that tell people what is right and wrong and the study of those rules
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A set of ideas that guide how a person or group acts
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A person's set of beliefs or preferences that guide their actions
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A set of moral rules that guide how a person or group behaves
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Ideas about what is important and how to behave
A person's or group's beliefs about right and wrong that guide their choices
How Distinctive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ethos comes from the Greek word ethos meaning 'custom' or 'character'. That's why ethos today means the spirit or guiding values of a person or group, and it is the same root as ethical and ethics, which are also about behaviour and values.