n. | 1. | The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization. |
2. | (Æsthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character - character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people - rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; - opposed to |
Noun | 1. | ethos - (anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era; "the Greek ethos" |