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Definition of 'soul'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) soul
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical.

2.  soul
the spiritual part of humans regarded in its moral aspect, or as believed to survive death and be subject to happiness or misery in a life to come.

3.  soul
the disembodied spirit of a deceased person.

4.  soul
the seat of human feelings or sentiments.

5.  soul
a person:
brave souls.

6.  soul
spirit or courage.

7.  soul
the essential element or part of something.

8.  soul
the embodiment of some quality:
He was the very soul of tact.

9.  soul
(cap.) (in Christian Science) God.

10.  soul
(among black Americans) shared ethnic awareness and pride.

11.  soul
deeply felt emotion, as conveyed by a performer or artist.

12. (adj.) soul
of or pertaining to black Americans or their culture.

Etymology: (bef. 900; OE sāwl, sāwol, c. OHG sē(u)la)

Definition of 'soul'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) soul, psyche
the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

2. (noun) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
a human being
"there was too much for one person to do"

3. (noun) soul, soulfulness
deep feeling or emotion

4. (noun) soul
the human embodiment of something
"the soul of honor"

5. (noun) soul
a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
"soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement"

Definition of 'soul'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) soul
sb's consciousness or ability to feel emotions
a cold-blooded murderer with no soul; a story that touched her soul

2.  soul
sb's spirit as opposed to their body
Do people have souls that live on after they die?

3.  soul
a person
She's a gentle soul.; There was not a soul out that night.

4.  soul
***strongly emotional popular song style
***She sings jazz and soul.

Definition of 'soul'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) soul
sole

2. (adj) soul
sole

3. (noun) soul
the spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

4. (noun) soul
the seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part

5. (noun) soul
the leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army

6. (noun) soul
energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness

7. (noun) soul
a human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul

8. (noun) soul
a pure or disembodied spirit

9. (verb) soul
to afford suitable sustenance

10. (verb) soul
to indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind

Definitions of 'soul'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. soul
the name given to the spiritual part of man, the seat of reason (q. v.) and conscience, by which he relates and subordinates himself to the higher spiritual world, inspiring him with a sense of individual responsibility.

Translation of 'soul'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the spirit; the non-physical part of a person, which is often thought to continue in existence after he or she dies People often discuss whether animals and plants have souls.
Afrikaans: siel	Arabic: روح	Bulgarian: дух
Brazilian: alma	Czech: duše	German: die Seele
Danish: sjæl	Greek: ψυχή	Spanish: alma, espíritu
Estonian: hing	Farsi: روح	Finnish: sielu
French: âme	Hebrew: נְשָׁמָה	Hindi: आत्मा, जीवात्मा
Croatian: duh, duša	Hungarian: lélek	Indonesian: jiwa
Icelandic: sál	Italian: anima, spirito	Japanese: 魂
Korean: 영혼	Lithuanian: siela	Latvian: dvēsele; gars
Malay: roh	Dutch: ziel	Norwegian: sjel,ånd
Polish: dusza	Persian: روح	Pashto: روح
Portuguese: alma	Romanian: suflet	Russian: душа
Slovak: duša	Slovenian: duša	Serbian: duša
Swedish: själ	Thai: วิญญาณ	Turkish: ruh
Taiwanese: 靈魂	Ukrainian: душа, дух	Urdu: روح
Vietnamese: linh hồn	Chinese: 灵魂
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