Soul

Quick meaning: Soul is a noun meaning The spirit or essence of anything.

Meaning

The spirit or essence of anything.

More Meanings

1. Life, energy, vigor.
2. Cultural consciousness and pride among people of African American heritage.
3. A strong positive feeling of intense sensitivity and emotional fervor conveyed especially by African American performers.
4. (music) Soul music.
5. A person, especially as one among many.
6. An individual life.
7. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.

Example Sentences

Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.

Flowey: See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being!

That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. / But not a ſoul to give our arms ſucceſs.

From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

Word Forms

• souls
• soule
• souling
• souled

Synonyms for soul

Depending on context, synonyms include crux, gist, besoul, ensoul, individual, mortal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include psyche, soulfulness, somebody, person, individual, someone.

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