'Esprit de corps' definitions:
Definition of 'esprit de corps'
From: WordNet
noun
The spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed [syn: esprit de corps, morale, team spirit]
Definition of 'Esprit de corps'
From: GCIDE
- Esprit \Es`prit"\, n. [F. See Spirit.] Spirit. [1913 Webster]
- Esprit de corps, a French phrase much used by English writers to denote the common spirit pervading the members of a body or association of persons. It implies sympathy, enthusiasm, devotion, and jealous regard for the honor of the body as a whole. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'esprit de corps'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord,
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agape,
- agreement,
- amity,
- bipartisanship,
- bonds of harmony,
- boon companionship,
- brotherhood,
- brotherliness,
- brotherly love,
- camaraderie,
- caritas,
- cement of friendship,
- charity,
- chumship,
- clannishness,
- clanship,
- cliqueyness,
- cliquishness,
- cliquism,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coagency,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- colleagueship,
- collectivism,
- collusion,
- commensalism,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- communalism,
- communion,
- communism,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- community of interest,
- community of interests,
- companionship,
- compatibility,
- complicity,
- comradeship,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concurrence,
- confraternity,
- congeniality,
- consortship,
- cooperation,
- cooperativeness,
- correspondence,
- denominationalism,
- devotion,
- duet,
- duumvirate,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenism,
- empathy,
- enthusiasm,
- esprit,
- ethnocentricity,
- exclusiveness,
- faction,
- factionalism,
- feeling of identity,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- fraternalism,
- fraternity,
- freemasonry,
- frictionlessness,
- good vibes,
- good vibrations,
- happy family,
- harmony,
- identity,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- kinship,
- like-mindedness,
- love,
- loyalty,
- mass action,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- octet,
- oneness,
- partiality,
- partisanism,
- partisanship,
- party spirit,
- peace,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- rapport,
- rapprochement,
- reciprocity,
- sectarianism,
- sectionalism,
- septet,
- sextet,
- sharing,
- sisterhood,
- sisterliness,
- sodality,
- solidarity,
- sorority,
- spirit,
- symbiosis,
- sympathy,
- symphony,
- synergism,
- synergy,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- understanding,
- union,
- unison,
- united action,
- unity