Meaning of 'soul' (Webster Dictionary)
- Sole.
- Sole.
- 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."
- The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the
animating or essential part.
- The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as,
the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.
- Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other
noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or
goodness.
- A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually
with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.
- A pure or disembodied spirit.
- To afford suitable sustenance.
- To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
Meaning of 'soul' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
Example in sentence:- soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement
Meaning (2):
- the human embodiment of something
Meaning (3):
- a human being
Example in sentence:- there was too much for one person to do
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