1. The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
   "The trauma had a profound effect on his soul";
   - psyche
    
2. A human being
   "there was too much for one soul to do";
   - person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal
    
3. Deep feeling or emotion
   "Her singing was filled with soul that moved the audience";
   - soulfulness
    
4. The human embodiment of something
   "the soul of honour"
    
5. 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"

Sounds like: sold, soled

Derived forms: souls

Type of: African-American music, being, black music, embodiment, feeling, gospel, gospel music, gospel singing, organism, spirit

Part of: people

Encyclopedia: Soul, Mind, Body Medicine