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Noun: soul  sówl
  1. The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
    - psyche
     
  2. A human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
    "there was too much for one soul to do";
    - person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal
     
  3. Deep feeling or emotion
    - 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, Joseph