English Dictionary

soul

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.

She believes that the soul is eternal.

意味（1）

(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.

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.

意味（2）

The spirit or essence of anything.

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.

意味（3）

Life, energy, vigor.

That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. / But not a ſoul to give our arms ſucceſs.

意味（4）

(music) Soul music.

意味（5）

A person, especially as one among many.

I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.

意味（6）

An individual life.

Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.

意味（7）

(mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.