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Poule vs Soul - What's the difference?

poule | soul |

As nouns the difference between poule and soul

is that poule is a girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut while soul is 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.

As a verb soul is

to endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

poule

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) poule.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut.
  • * 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 369:
  • *:‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in various senses)
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    soul

    English

    (wikipedia soul)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).

    Alternative forms

    * sowl (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (religion, folklore) 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.
  • * 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
  • "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • The spirit or essence of anything.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=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.
  • * Young
  • That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
  • (music) Soul music.
  • A person, especially as one among many.
  • An individual life.
  • Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
    * (English Citations of "soul")
    Derived terms
    * All Souls' Day * bare one's soul * body and soul * brevity is the soul of wit * dead soul * heart and soul * neo soul * sell one's soul * soul brother * soul-destroying * soul food * soul kiss * soul mate/soulmate * soul-searching * soul-strring * souled * soulful * soulfully * soulfulness * soul music * soul patch * soul searching * soul sister * world soul (soul)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
  • (Chaucer)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.
  • (Warner)
    (Webster 1913) ----