Noun
(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era
Source: WordNetWhat I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. Herbert Read
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence. Alison Bechdel
When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos. Ursula Goodenough
The ethos of science involves the functionally necessary demand that theories or generalizations be evaluated in [terms of] their logical consistency and consonance with facts. Robert K. Merton
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. Richard Rogers
When I visited St Margaret's School in Loanhead ... I was struck by pride that the children took in their faith, and their identification with the ethos of the school. These children were not just learning to be good students. They were learning to be good people. Alex Salmond