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See also:Soul,soûl,andSöul

English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishsoule,sowle,saule,sawle, fromOld Englishsāwol(“soul, life, spirit, being”), fromProto-West Germanic*saiwalu, fromProto-Germanic*saiwalō(“soul”), of uncertain ultimate origin (see there for further information).

Cognates

Cognate withScotssaul,sowel(“soul”),Saterland FrisianSeele(“soul”),West Frisiansiel(“soul”),Alemannic GermanSeel(“soul”),Central FranconianSiel(“soul”),Dutchziel(“soul”),GermanSeele(“soul”),German Low GermanSeel(“soul”),LuxembourgishSéil(“soul, spirit”),Vilamovianzejł,zəjł,zyił(“soul”),Gothic𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌰(saiwala,“soul”). Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed fromOld Saxonsēola. ModernDanishsjæl(“soul”),Icelandicsál(“soul”),Norwegian Bokmålsjel(“soul”),Norwegian Nynorsksjel,sål(“soul”),Swedishsjäl(“soul”),Finnishsielu(“soul”) may have come fromOld Englishsāwol.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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soul (countable anduncountable,pluralsouls)

  1. (religion, folklore) Thespirit oressence 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 immortalsoul, 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 immortalsoul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC,page46:
      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 harassedsoul 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.
    • 2015 September 15, Toby Fox,Undertale,Linux,Microsoft Windows,OS X:
      Flowey: See that heart? That is yourSOUL, the very culmination of your being!
  2. The spirit or essence of anything.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      From another point of view, it was a place without asoul. 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.
    • 1928,Franklin D. Roosevelt,The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎[1],Houghton Mifflin,→OCLC,→OL,pages36–37:
      It is possible with only these qualities for a man to be a reasonably efficient President, but there is one thing more needed to make him a great President. It is that quality ofsoul which makes a man loved by little children, by dumb animals, that quality ofsoul which makes him a strong help to all those in sorrow or in trouble, that quality which makes him not merely admired, but loved by all the people - the quality of sympathetic understanding of the human heart, of real interest in one's fellow men.
  3. Life,energy,vigor.
    • 1725, [Edward Young], “Satire III. To the Right Honourable Mr.Dodington.”, inLove of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published1741,→OCLC,page52:
      That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. /But not aſoul to give our arms ſucceſs.
  4. (music)Soul music.
  5. Aperson, especially as one amongmany.
    • 18 January 1915,D. H. Lawrence,letter to William Hopkin
      I want to gather together about twentysouls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.
  6. An individual life.
    Fiftysouls were lost when the ship sank.
  7. (mathematics) A kind ofsubmanifold involved in thesoul theorem ofRiemannian geometry.
Quotations
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For quotations using this term, seeCitations:soul.

Synonyms
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Derived terms
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English terms starting with “soul”

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Descendants
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Descendants
Translations
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the spirit or essence of a person that is often believed to live on after the person's death
life, energy, vigour
soul music
person, especially as one among many
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Verb

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soul (third-person singular simple presentsouls,present participlesouling,simple past and past participlesouled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) Toendow with a soul ormind.
    Synonyms:besoul,ensoul
  2. Tobeg on All Soul's Day.
    Coordinate term:trick-or-treat
    • 1981, Geoffrey Scard,Squire and tenant: life in rural Cheshire, 1760-1900, page93:
      All Souls' Day was celebrated bysouling, a custom going back to pre-Reformation days: soul cakers and mummers toured the village begging for a soul cake — a plain, round, flat cake seasoned with spices.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromFrenchsouler(“to satiate”).

Verb

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soul (third-person singular simple presentsouls,present participlesouling,simple past and past participlesouled)

  1. (obsolete) Tofeed ornourish.[1]
    • 1741, unknown [formerly attributed toDaniel Defoe],The Life and Adventures of Mrs.Christian Davies, the British Amazon, commonly called Mother Ross: […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for R[ichard] Montagu,→OCLC, part II,page76:
      During my Stay here, I was going to take Pot-Luck with ColonelIngram, and accidentally meeting him in the Way, I told him I deſigned toſoul a Plate with him, [...]

References

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  1. ^“soul”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

Anagrams

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Czech

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Noun

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soul m inan

  1. soul(music style)

Declension

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This noun needs aninflection-table template.

Further reading

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  • “soul”, inKartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Finnish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsoul.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsou̯l/,[ˈs̠o̞u̯l]
  • Rhymes:-oul
  • Syllabification(key):soul
  • Hyphenation(key):soul

Noun

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soul

  1. soul music

Declension

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Inflection ofsoul (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominativesoul—
genitivesoulin—
partitivesoulia—
illativesouliin—
singularplural
nominativesoul—
accusativenom.soul—
gen.soulin
genitivesoulin—
partitivesoulia—
inessivesoulissa—
elativesoulista—
illativesouliin—
adessivesoulilla—
ablativesoulilta—
allativesoulille—
essivesoulina—
translativesouliksi—
abessivesoulitta—
instructive——
comitativeSee the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms ofsoul(Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singularplural
nominativesoulini—
accusativenom.soulini—
gen.soulini
genitivesoulini—
partitivesouliani—
inessivesoulissani—
elativesoulistani—
illativesouliini—
adessivesoulillani—
ablativesouliltani—
allativesoulilleni—
essivesoulinani—
translativesoulikseni—
abessivesoulittani—
instructive——
comitative——
second-person singular possessor
singularplural
nominativesoulisi—
accusativenom.soulisi—
gen.soulisi
genitivesoulisi—
partitivesouliasi—
inessivesoulissasi—
elativesoulistasi—
illativesouliisi—
adessivesoulillasi—
ablativesouliltasi—
allativesoulillesi—
essivesoulinasi—
translativesouliksesi—
abessivesoulittasi—
instructive——
comitative——
first-person plural possessor
singularplural
nominativesoulimme—
accusativenom.soulimme—
gen.soulimme
genitivesoulimme—
partitivesouliamme—
inessivesoulissamme—
elativesoulistamme—
illativesouliimme—
adessivesoulillamme—
ablativesouliltamme—
allativesoulillemme—
essivesoulinamme—
translativesouliksemme—
abessivesoulittamme—
instructive——
comitative——
second-person plural possessor
singularplural
nominativesoulinne—
accusativenom.soulinne—
gen.soulinne
genitivesoulinne—
partitivesoulianne—
inessivesoulissanne—
elativesoulistanne—
illativesouliinne—
adessivesoulillanne—
ablativesouliltanne—
allativesoulillenne—
essivesoulinanne—
translativesouliksenne—
abessivesoulittanne—
instructive——
comitative——
third-person possessor
singularplural
nominativesoulinsa—
accusativenom.soulinsa—
gen.soulinsa
genitivesoulinsa—
partitivesouliaan
souliansa		—
inessivesoulissaan
soulissansa		—
elativesoulistaan
soulistansa		—
illativesouliinsa—
adessivesoulillaan
soulillansa		—
ablativesouliltaan
souliltansa		—
allativesoulilleen
soulillensa		—
essivesoulinaan
soulinansa		—
translativesoulikseen
souliksensa		—
abessivesoulittaan
soulittansa		—
instructive——
comitative——

Derived terms

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compounds

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Franco-Provençal

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Adjective

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soul(Piemontais)

  1. alternative form ofsol(“alone”)

References

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  • soul in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu

French

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Etymology 1

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Seesaoul.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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soul (femininesoule,masculine pluralsouls,feminine pluralsoules)

  1. post-1990 spelling ofsoûl,itself analternative form ofsaoul(“drunk”)
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromEnglishsoul.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soul f (uncountable)

  1. soul,soul music

Further reading

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsoul.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soul (usuallyuncountable,pluralsoulok)

  1. (music)soul music

Declension

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Inflection (stem in-o-, back harmony)
singularplural
nominativesoulsoulok
accusativesoultsoulokat
dativesoulnaksouloknak
instrumentalsoullalsoulokkal
causal-finalsoulértsoulokért
translativesoullásoulokká
terminativesouligsoulokig
essive-formalsoulkéntsoulokként
essive-modal——
inessivesoulbansoulokban
superessivesoulonsoulokon
adessivesoulnálsouloknál
illativesoulbasoulokba
sublativesoulrasoulokra
allativesoulhozsoulokhoz
elativesoulbólsoulokból
delativesoulrólsoulokról
ablativesoultólsouloktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular		soulésouloké
non-attributive
possessive – plural		souléisoulokéi
Possessive forms ofsoul
possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
1st person sing.soulomsouljaim
2nd person sing.soulodsouljaid
3rd person sing.souljasouljai
1st person pluralsoulunksouljaink
2nd person pluralsoulotoksouljaitok
3rd person pluralsouljuksouljaik

Derived terms

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsoul.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsol/,(careful style)/ˈsowl/[1]
  • Rhymes:-ol,(careful style)-owl
  • Hyphenation:(careful style)sóul

Noun

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soul m orf (invariable)

  1. soul music

References

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  1. ^soul inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Noun

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soul

  1. alternative form ofsoule

Old French

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Adjective

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soul m (oblique and nominative feminine singularsoule)

  1. alternative form ofsol

Declension

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Casemasculinefeminineneuter
singularsubjectsoulssoulesoul
obliquesoulsoulesoul
pluralsubjectsoulsoulessoul
obliquesoulssoulessoul

Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishsoul, fromMiddle Englishsoule,sowle,saule,sawle, fromOld Englishsāwol, fromProto-West Germanic*saiwalu, fromProto-Germanic*saiwalō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soul m inan

  1. soul music

Declension

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Declension ofsoul
singular
nominativesoul
genitivesoul/soulu
dativesoul/soulowi
accusativesoul
instrumentalsoul/soulem
locativesoul/soulu
vocativesoul/soulu

Derived terms

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adjective

Further reading

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  • soul inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • soul in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishsoul.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soul m (uncountable)

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsoul.

Adjective

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soul m orf orn (indeclinable)

  1. soul(music)

Declension

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Declension ofsoul (invariable)
singularplural
masculineneuterfemininemasculineneuterfeminine
nominative-
accusative		indefinitesoulsoulsoulsoul
definite————
genitive-
dative		indefinitesoulsoulsoulsoul
definite————

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsoul.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsoul/[ˈsou̯l]
  • Rhymes:-oul
  • Syllabification:soul

Noun

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soul m (uncountable)

  1. soul,soul music

Further reading

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