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zeitgeists

zeitgeists is the plural of zeitgeist.

Meaning of zeitgeist

Noun

zeitgeist (plural zeitgeists or zeitgeister or (rare) zeitgeisten)

  1. The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.
    • She was anchored to that seat by the accumulated indignities of days gone by and the boundless aspirations of generations yet unborn. She was a victim of both the forces of history and the forces of destiny. She had been tracked down by the Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time.1958, Martin Luther King Jr., “Rosa Parks' Arrest”, in Stride Toward Freedom

Noun capitalized: Zeitgeists

Zeitgeists

  1. (plural) plural of Zeitgeist

Questions about zeitgeists

What is zeitgeists the plural of?
Zeitgeists is the plural of zeitgeist.
What part of speech is zeitgeists?
Zeitgeists is a noun.

Words near zeitgeists in the dictionary

  1. zeitgeister
  2. zeitgeistier
  3. zeitgeistiest
  4. zeitgeistification
  5. zeitgeistily
  6. zeitgeists
  7. zeitgeisty
  8. Zeitler
  9. Zeitlers
  10. Zeitlin
  11. Zeitlins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zeitgeists (page history and authors); Zeitgeists (page history and authors); zeitgeist (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.

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