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esprit de corps
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Esprit \Es`prit"\, n. [F. See Spirit.] Spirit.
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.
Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A shared spirit of comradeship, enthusiasm, and devotion to a cause#noun among the members of a group, for example of a military unit.
WordNet
n. the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed [syn: morale, team spirit]
Wikipedia
Esprit de corps, a French phrase meaning the morale of a group.
Esprit de Corps may also refer to:
- Esprit de Corps (magazine), a Canadian military magazine
- Esprit de Corps (EP), a 2005 EP by Wild Beasts
- "Esprit de Corps" (The Avengers), an episode of the British spy-fi television series The Avengers
- Esprit de Corps (film), 2014 Philippines film by Kanakan Balintagos about the military
Esprit de Corps is a Canadian military magazine operating out of Ottawa, Ontario, by publisher and former soldier Scott Taylor. The magazine reports on Canadian and international military issues, politics, military history and current events. Esprit de Corps was originally designed to be an in-flight reading magazine in 1988 for passengers on Canadian Forces aircraft. Each issue features "On Target", an article written by Scott Taylor about current events. The magazine features a letter to the editor section where readers may comment on earlier issues, as well as a "hit and miss" page of short articles on current events. The magazine also features sections on military history such as "The Fight for Canada" and Les Peate's "The Old Guard."
Esprit de Corps boasts such influential subscribers as former Chief of Defence Staff General Rick Hillier, former Minister of National Defence Gordon O'Connor, Chief of the Land Staff Lieutenant-General Andrew Leslie, former Air Command Lieutenant-General Steve Lucas and Canadian Senator Colin Kenny.
Esprit de Corps is the twenty-fifth episode of the third series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman. It originally aired on ABC on 14 March 1964. The episode was directed by Don Leaver and written by Eric Paice.
Usage examples of "esprit de corps".
All Marines, in his opinion, had the kind of esprit de corps and impeccable discipline that the Finns he so admired in combat had possessed.
There were a lot of reasons why the Greek campaign was a fiasco, but one of them was that personnel were moved around so much that there was no possibility of developing any esprit de corps.
And that officers are transferred with great frequency and enlisted men with considerable frequency and you have a situation in which esprit de corps cannot be developed (an outfit without esprit de corps is not an army unit.
Nevertheless, the army's heavy divisions (its six armored and mechanized divisions) retain a strong sense of professionalism and a corresponding esprit de corps.
He'd come back from America upbeat, feeling that he'd seen the way, seen the future, found a way to secure his country and do it in the proper way, with a professional army composed of long-service experts, held together by esprit de corps, proud guardians and servants of a free nation, the way the Red Army had been on its march to Berlin.
Based both upon his experience as a company commander in France, and on what he had observed in the Russo-Finnish War, Colonel Neville knew that the keys to military success were esprit de corps and impeccable discipline.
Well, they weren't exactlv intellectuals, so perhaps-partly out of naivete, partly out of snobbery and esprit de corps-they invented a personal ceremony to distinguish themselves from the other Crusaders.