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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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")