noun
Meaning 1
Alternative letter-case form of zeitgeist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Zeitgeist
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪtˌɡaɪst/
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literary: /ˈtsaɪtˌɡaɪst/
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CMU ARPABET: T S AY1 T G AY2 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spiritus mundi, temper of the times, tenor of the times, time spirit, time-spirit
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell
History
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Zeitgeist (literally “spirit of the age”).
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: رُوح الْعَصْر (rūḥ al-ʕaṣr) — the spirit of the age
- Armenian: ժամանակի ոգի (žamanaki ogi) — the spirit of the age
- Chinese Mandarin: 時代精神 /时代精神 (shídài jīngshén) — the spirit of the age
- Czech: duch doby — the spirit of the age
- Danish: tidsånd — the spirit of the age
- Danish: zeitgeist — the spirit of the age
- Dutch: tijdgeest — the spirit of the age
- Esperanto: spirito de la tempo — the spirit of the age
- Faroese: tíðarandi — the spirit of the age
- Finnish: ajan henki — the spirit of the age
- French: esprit du temps — the spirit of the age
- French: air du temps — the spirit of the age
- German: Zeitgeist — the spirit of the age
- Greek: πνεύμα των καιρών (pnévma ton kairón) — the spirit of the age
- Hebrew: צייטגייסט (tsáitgaist) — the spirit of the age
- Hindi: युगात्मा (yugātmā) — the spirit of the age
- Hungarian: korszellem — the spirit of the age
- Icelandic: tíðarandi — the spirit of the age
- Italian: spirito del tempo — the spirit of the age
- Japanese: 時代精神 (jidai seishin) — the spirit of the age
- Kazakh: заман рухы (zaman ruxy) — the spirit of the age
- Luxembourgish: Zäitgeescht — the spirit of the age
- Macedonian: дух на вре́мето (duh na vrémeto) — the spirit of the age
- Marathi: युगात्मा (yugātmā) — the spirit of the age
- Nepali: युगात्मा (yugātmā) — the spirit of the age
- Norwegian Bokmål: tidsånd — the spirit of the age
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tidsånd — the spirit of the age
- Persian: روح زمانه (ruh-e zamâne) — the spirit of the age
- Persian: روح دوران (ruh-e dowrân) — the spirit of the age
- Polish: Zeitgeist — the spirit of the age
- Portuguese: zeitgeist — the spirit of the age
- Romanian: spiritul epocii — the spirit of the age
- Romanian: spiritul vremii — the spirit of the age
- Russian: дух вре́мени (dux vrémeni) — the spirit of the age
- Sanskrit: युगात्मा (yugātmā) — the spirit of the age
- Serbo-Croatian: дух времена — the spirit of the age
- Serbo-Croatian: duh vremena — the spirit of the age
- Spanish: ánimo de la época — the spirit of the age
- Spanish: espíritu de la época — the spirit of the age
- Swedish: tidsanda — the spirit of the age
- Thai: ไซท์ไกสท์ (sai-gai) — the spirit of the age
- Urdu: رُوحِ دَورَاں (rūh-i daurā̃) — the spirit of the age
- Urdu: رُوحِ دَورَان (rūh-i daurān) — the spirit of the age
- Yiddish: צײַטגײַסט (tsaytgayst) — the spirit of the age