soul
nounEtymology
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 an uncertain ultimate origin (see there for further information). Cognates Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Alemannic German Seel (“soul”), Central Franconian Siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”), German Low German Seel (“soul”), Luxembourgish Séil (“soul, spirit”), Vilamovian zejł, zəjł, zyił (“soul”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌰 (saiwala, “soul”). Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon sēola. Modern Danish sjæl (“soul”), Icelandic sál (“soul”), Norwegian Bokmål sjel (“soul”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjel, sål (“soul”), Swedish själ (“soul”), Finnish sielu (“soul”) may have come from Old English sāwol.
Definitions
The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
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.
- Flowey: See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being!
The spirit or essence of anything.
- 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.
Life, energy, vigor.
- That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. / But not a ſoul to give our arms ſucceſs.
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Cultural consciousness and pride among people of African American heritage.
A strong positive feeling of intense sensitivity and emotional fervor conveyed especially…
A strong positive feeling of intense sensitivity and emotional fervor conveyed especially by African American performers.
Soul music.
A person, especially as one among many.
An individual life.
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
Characteristic of or pertaining to African American culture.
- soul music
- soul food
To endow with a soul or mind.
To beg on All Soul's Day.
- All Souls' Day was celebrated by souling, 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.
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, [...]
The neighborhood
Derived
after one's own soul, album-oriented soul, All Souls' Day, animal soul, bare one's soul, bless my soul, blue-eyed soul, body and soul, brevity is the soul of wit, brown-eyed soul, cut away one's soul, cybersoul, dead soul, deep soul, desoul, ensoul, God rest her soul, God rest his soul, God rest their soul, heart and soul, hip hop soul, insoul, keep body and soul together, keep soul and body together, kindred soul, lay bare one's soul, life and soul of the party, Lord rest his soul, lost soul, may God have mercy on your soul, neo soul, neo-soul, northern soul, not a living soul, not a soul, object-soul, old soul, oversoul, pour one's soul out, pour out one's soul · +77 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at soul. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at soul. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at soul
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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