Dictionary.com Slideshow Demo: Every era has a spirit. Be it the pervasive "cool" that stemmed from jazz and beat poetry in the 1940s, the revolutionary character of the 1960s with the civil rights and antiwar movements, or even the technological boom of the twenty-first century. Thanks to German we have the perfect word for these emblematic "spirits of the times": Zeitgeist. Literally translated as "time spirit" or "time ghost" zeitgeist refers to the "general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time."
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