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soul

/s/oU/l/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

  1. Sole.

    adjective

    Source: webster1913

  2. Sole.

    adjective

    Source: webster1913

noun

  1. the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

    noun.person

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  2. a human being

    noun.tops

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  3. deep feeling or emotion

    noun.feeling

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  4. the human embodiment of something

    noun.act

    Examples
    The soul of honor.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  5. a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s

    noun.communication

    Examples
    Soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  6. 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 <i>feeling</i>. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

    noun

    Source: webster1913

verb

  1. To afford suitable sustenance.

    verb

    Source: webster1913

  2. To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

    verb

    Source: webster1913

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