soul

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Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”). Cognate with North Frisian siel, sial (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).

Alternative formsEdit

• sowl (archaic)

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sōl, IPA^(key): /səʊl/
• (General American) enPR: sōl, IPA^(key): /soʊl/
• Rhymes: -əʊl

• Audio (US)

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• Homophones: Seoul, sole

NounEdit

soul (plural souls)

1. (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.
   • 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid

     "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, The Celebrity:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

2. The spirit or essence of anything.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.

3. Life, energy, vigor.
   • Young

     That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.

4. (music) Soul music.
5. A person, especially as one among many.
6. An individual life.

   Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Derived termsEdit

Look at pages starting with soul.

Related termsEdit

• mind
• spirit

TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

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Etymology 2Edit

From French souler (“to satiate”).

VerbEdit

soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

1. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

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NounEdit

soul

1. soul music

DeclensionEdit

AnagramsEdit

• solu, Sulo, sulo, ulos

Alternative formsEdit

• soûl, saoul

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin satullus, diminutive of satur.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /su/
• Homophones: sou, sous

AdjectiveEdit

soul m (feminine soule, masculine plural souls, feminine plural soules)

1. drunk

Derived termsEdit

• souler

SynonymsEdit

• ivre

Etymology 2Edit

From English soul.

NounEdit

soul f

1. soul, soul music.

External linksEdit

• “soul” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

EtymologyEdit

English

NounEdit

soul m, f (invariable)

1. soul music

EtymologyEdit

Latin solus.

Alternative formsEdit

• seul
• sole

AdjectiveEdit

soul

1. only; sole; single

DeclensionEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English soul.

NounEdit

soul m

1. Soul, soul music.

DeclensionEdit

NounEdit

soul m (uncountable)

1. soul music (a music genre combining gospel music, rhythm and blues and often jazz)