Definition of SOUL

soul

Plural: souls

Noun

  • The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being; spirit.
  • the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
  • a human being
  • deep feeling or emotion
  • the human embodiment of something
    • "the soul of honor"
  • 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"
  • 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.
  • The spirit or essence of anything.
  • Life, energy, vigor.
  • Soul music.
  • A person, especially as one among many.
  • An individual life.
  • A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

Verb

  • To endow with a soul or mind.
  • To beg on All Soul's Day.
  • To feed or nourish.

Examples

  • Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
  • He poured his SOUL into trying to find a seven-letter word, but came up short.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”), of uncertain ultimate origin (see there for further information). Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), North Frisian siel, sial (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”) Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon *siala. Modern Danish sjæl, Swedish själ, Norwegian sjel, Icelandic sál, Finnish sielu may have come from Old English sāwol.

Scrabble Score: 4

soul: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
soul: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
soul: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

soul: valid Words With Friends Word