Collins English-English Dictionary

soul [səυl]

1. 1. n soul music a type of Black music resulting from the addition of jazz, gospel, and pop elements to the urban blues style

2. 2. n the spirit or immaterial part of man, the seat of human personality, intellect, will, and emotions, regarded as an entity that survives the body after death

3. 3. n [Christianity] the spiritual part of a person, capable of redemption from the power of sin through divine grace

4. 4. n the essential part or fundamental nature of anything

5. 5. n a person's feelings or moral nature as distinct from other faculties

6. 6. n (as modifier)

   a soul singer

7. 7. n [modifier] of or relating to Black Americans and their culture

   soul brother

   soul food

8. 8. n nobility of spirit or temperament

   a man of great soul and courage

9. 9. n an inspiring spirit or leading figure, as of a cause or movement

10. 10. n See life

11. 11. n a person regarded as typifying some characteristic or quality

    the soul of discretion

12. 12. n a person; individual

    an honest soul

13. 13. n [Etymology] Old English sawol; related to Old Frisian sele, Old Saxon seola, Old High German seula soul