# morale

Pronunciation: US say "muh-RAL" /məˈɹæl/; UK say "muh-RAHL" /məˈɹɑːl/

## Noun

1. The ability of people to keep their belief in an institution or a goal, or in themselves and one another.
   - Simple: How strongly people keep believing in their group, their goal, or themselves.
   - _Three straight losses had left team morale at a season low._
   - _The general toured the front lines to raise morale before the offensive._

## Origin

Borrowed from French morale.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/morale (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).