soul
the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
How often you will meet it
Rank 388 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 50,806 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.024% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life also: psyche
- a human being also: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal there was too much for one person to do
- deep feeling or emotion also: soulfulness
- the human embodiment of something the soul of honor
- 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
soul in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The harmony of soul and body—how much that is!
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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During the slave regime, the Southern white man owned the Negro body and soul.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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My soul doth magnify the Lord: and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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His strongest outward characteristic was quietness, both of manner, speech, motions, springing, it appeared, out of a corresponding quietness of soul.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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Once he had known birds only by sight, but now he knew every calling, twittering, winging soul of them by name.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1