soul

soul  (sl)

n.

1. The animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity.

2. The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.

3. The disembodied spirit of a dead human.

4. A human: "the homes of some nine hundred souls" Garrison Keillor.

5. The central or integral part; the vital core: "It saddens me that this network ... may lose its soul, which is after all the quest for news" Marvin Kalb.

6. A person considered as the perfect embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification: I am the very soul of discretion.

7. A person's emotional or moral nature: "An actor is ... often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not" Alec Guinness.

8. A sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.

9. A strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer, or an artist.

10. Soul music.

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[Middle English, from Old English swol.]

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soul

Noun

1. the spiritual part of a person, regarded as the centre of personality, intellect, will, and emotions: believed by many to survive the body after death

2. the essential part or fundamental nature of anything: the soul of contemporary America

3. deep and sincere feelings: you've got no soul

4. Also called: (soul music) a type of Black music using blues and elements of jazz, gospel, and pop

5. a person regarded as a good example of some quality: the soul of prudence

6. a person: there was hardly a soul there

7. the life and soul Informal a person who is lively, entertaining, and fun to be with: the life and soul of the campus [Old English sāwol]

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Soul

See also ghosts; religion;spirits and spiritualism; theology.

creationism Theology.

a doctrine that God creates a new soul for every human being bon. Cf. metempsychosis. — creationist, n. — creationistic, adj.

infusionism

the doctrine or belief that the soul enters the body by divine infu-sion at conception or birth.

metempsychosis

1. the passage of a soul from one body to another.
2. the rebirth of the soul at death in another body, either human or animal. Cf. creationism. — metempsychic, metempsychosic, metempsychosical, adj.

monopsychism

the theory that all souls are actually a single unity. — mono-psychic, monopsychical, adj.

nullibism

the denial that the soul exists. — nullibist, n.

panpsychism

Philosophy. the doctrine that each object in the universe has either a mind or an unconscious soul. — panpsychist, n. — panpsychistic, adj.

polypsychism

the belief that one person may have many souls or modes of intelligence. — polypsychic, polypsychical, adj.

psychagogy

the guiding of a soul, especially that of a person recently dead into the lower world. — psychagogue, n. — psychagogic, adj.

psychomachy

Obsolete, a conflict or battle between the soul and the body.

psychorrhagy

the manifestation of a person’s soul to another, usually at some distance from the body. — psychorrhagic, adj.

theopsychism

the belief that the soul has a divine nature.

traducianism

Theology. the doctrine that a new human soul is generated from the souls of the parents at the moment of conception. — traducianist, n. — traducianistic, adj.

transmigrationism

any of various theories of metempsychosis or reincarna-tion, as the Hindu doctrines of Karma.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	soul - the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life psyche ghost - the visible disembodied soul of a dead person spirit - the vital principle or animating force within living things
	2.	soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone organism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently causal agency, causal agent, cause - any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results personality - the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" chassis, bod, human body, material body, physical body, physique, build, anatomy, figure, flesh, frame, shape, soma, form - alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" self - a person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self" adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward adventurer, venturer - a person who enjoys taking risks unusual person, anomaly - a person who is unusual applicant, applier - a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission appointee, appointment - a person who is appointed to a job or position capitalist - a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) captor, capturer - a person who captures and holds people or animals changer, modifier - a person who changes something; "an inveterate changer of the menu" color-blind person - a person unable to distinguish differences in hue common man, common person, commoner - a person who holds no title communicator - a person who communicates with others contestant - a person who participates in competitions coward - a person who shows fear or timidity creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things controversialist, disputant, eristic - a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy applied scientist, engineer, technologist - a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems entertainer - a person who tries to please or amuse experimenter - a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas; "she was an experimenter in new forms of poetry" expert - a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully face - a part of a person that is used to refer to a person; "he looked out at a roomful of faces"; "when he returned to work he met many new faces" female person, female - a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies individualist - a person who pursues independent thought or action denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, indweller - a person who inhabits a particular place aborigine, indigen, indigene, native, aboriginal - an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" native - a person born in a particular place or country; "he is a native of Brazil" inexperienced person, innocent - a person who lacks knowledge of evil intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively juvenile, juvenile person - a young person, not fully developed lover - a person who loves someone or is loved by someone loved one - a person who you love, usually a member of your family leader - a person who rules or guides or inspires others male person, male - a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies money dealer, money handler - a person who receives or invests or pays out money
	3.	soul - deep feeling or emotion soulfulness feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"
	4.	soul - the human embodiment of something; "the soul of honor" embodiment - giving concrete form to an abstract concept
	5.	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" African-American music, black music - music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses gospel singing, gospel - folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul)

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soul

noun 1. spirit, essence, psyche, life, mind, reason, intellect, vital force, animating principle, wairua N.Z.

noun 2. embodiment, essence, incarnation, epitome, personification, quintessence, type

noun 3. person, being, human, individual, body, creature, mortal, man or woman

noun 4. feeling, force, energy, vitality, animation, fervour, ardour, vivacity

Translations

soul [səul] n → alma f;

God rest his soul → Dios le reciba en su seno or en su gloria;

I didn't see a soul → no vi a nadie;

the poor soul had nowhere to sleep → el pobre no tenía dónde dormir

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soul [səul] n → âme f;

the poor soul had nowhere to sleep → le pauvre n'avait nulle part où dormir;

I didn't see a soul → je n'ai vu (absolument) personne

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soul [səul] n → Seele f;

(Mus) → Soul m;

the poor soul had nowhere to sleep → der Ärmste hatte keine Unterkunft;

I didn't see a soul → ich habe keine Menschenseele gesehen

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soul [səul] n → anima;

the poor soul had nowhere to sleep → il poveraccio non aveva dove dormire;

I didn't see a soul → non ho visto anima viva