1. the animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity.
2. the spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.
3. the disembodied spirit of a dead human.
4. A human: "the homes of some nine hundred souls” ( garrison Keillor).
5. the central or integral part; the vital core: "it saddens me that this network ... may lose its soul, which is after all the quest for news” ( Marvin Kalb).
6. A person considered as the perfect embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification: I am the very soul of discretion.
7. A person's emotional or moral nature: "an actor is ... often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not” ( Alec guinness).
8. A sense of ethnic pride among black people and especially african americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.
9. A strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer, or an artist.
10. soul music.

1. 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.
2. the spirit or essence of anything.
3. life, energy, vigor.
4. soul music.
5. A person, especially as one among many.
6. an individual life.
7. to endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

1. sole.
2. by or for african-americans, or characteristic of their culture.
3. the spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. in a more general sense, “an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence.”
4. the seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.
5. the leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart.
6. energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.
7. A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet.
8. A pure or disembodied spirit.
9. A perceived shared community and awareness among african-americans.
10. soul music.
11. to afford suitable sustenance.
12. to indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

1. to endue with a soul.
2. to afford suitable sustenance; satisfy with food; satiate.
3. A substantial entity believed to be that in each person which lives, feels, thinks, and wills.
4. the moral and emotional part of man's nature; the seat of the sentiments or feelings: in distinction from intellect.
5. the animating or essential part; the essence: as, the soul of a song; the source of action; the chief part; hence, the inspirer or leader of any action or movement: as, the soul of an enterprise; an able commander is the soul of an army.
6. fervor; fire; grandeur of mind, or other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature.
7. A spiritual being; a disembodied spirit; a shade.
8. A human being; a person.
9.
10. intellect, spirit, etc. see mind.
11. ardor, force.
12. anything eaten with bread; a relish, as butter, cheese, milk, or preserves; that which satisfies.

1. deep feeling or emotion
2. a secular form of gospel that was a major black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
3. the human embodiment of something
4. a human being
5. the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life