Dictionary Entry
soul
soul is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sole. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Sole.
- 2intransitive verb
To afford suitable sustenance.
- 3noun
The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."
- 4noun
The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.
- 5noun
The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.
- 6noun
Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.
- 7noun
A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.
- 8noun
A pure or disembodied spirit.
- 9transitive verb
To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
- 10noun
a human being
"there was too much for one person to do"
- 11noun
the human embodiment of something
"the soul of honor"
- 12noun
a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
"soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement"
- 13noun
deep feeling or emotion
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- 14noun
the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
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