Sekirov Dictionary

soul

UK /səʊl/US /soʊl/

noun 9
verb 3
adjective 1
forms 3
phrases 6

noun9

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the part of a person that thinks and feels, which many believe lives on after death
- Flowey: See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being! — 2015
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The spirit or essence of anything.
- "There's a vibrancy that comes from the building's historic soul metting the rhythm of the Caribbean," says Monnier. — 2026
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A person, especially as one among many.
- 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin I want to gather together about twenty souls 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.
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An individual life.
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
Soul music.
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Life, energy, vigor.
- That he vvants Algebra he must confess. / But not a soul to give our arms success. — 1725
A strong positive feeling of intense sensitivity and emotional fervor conveyed especially by African American performers.
Cultural consciousness and pride among people of African American heritage.
A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

verb3

To beg on All Soul's Day.
(no longer used) To endow with a soul or mind.
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(no longer used) To feed or nourish.
- During my Stay here, I was going to take Pot-Luck with Colonel Ingram, and accidentally meeting him in the Way, I told him I designed to soul a Plate with him, [...] — 1741

adjective1

Characteristic of or pertaining to African American culture.

forms

souled · souling · souls

Phrases with soul

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