Word.ws English Dictionary

Corinthian spirits

Corinthian spirits is the plural of Corinthian spirit.

Meaning of Corinthian spirit

Noun

Corinthian spirit (countable and uncountable, plural Corinthian spirits)

  1. An especially high standard of sportsmanship.
    • Another thing the Association fostered, he thought, was the Old Boy spirit -- the Corinthian spirit -- and one way in which that was done was through sport.1924 May 30, “St. Mary's Old Boys At Dinner”, in Dover Express, page 5
  2. (dated) Amateurism, originally in yachting.
    • [A] farmer living on Lake Ontario ... was seized with the Corinthian spirit after reading some articles on boating. The farmer wrote: A neighbor and myself built a boat for instruction and amusement ...1879 February, “Sporting News”, in Buffalo Commercial, Buffalo (NY), page 3

Questions about Corinthian spirits

What is Corinthian spirits the plural of?
Corinthian spirits is the plural of Corinthian spirit.

Words near Corinthian spirits in the dictionary

  1. Corinthian leather
  2. Corinthian leathers
  3. Corinthian order
  4. Corinthian orders
  5. Corinthian spirit
  6. Corinthian spirits
  7. Corinthianesque
  8. Corinthianism
  9. Corinthianize
  10. Corinthianized
  11. Corinthianizes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Corinthian spirits (page history and authors); Corinthian spirit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Corinthian spirits.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/corinthian_spirits. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.