soul

Meaning

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

spirit

inner feelings

familiar spirit

life blood

living soul

departed soul

true meaning

human spirit

recover consciousness

single person

memory

vital principle

inner man

resultingly

living creature

inner self

dead person

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/səʊl/

From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”), of uncertain ultimate origin (see there for further information). Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), North Frisian siel, sial (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”) Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon *siala. Modern Danish sjæl, Swedish själ, Norwegian sjel. Icelandic sál may have come from Old English sāwol.