soulnoun
uk/səʊl/us/soʊl/soul noun (SPIRIT)
B2 [ C ] the spiritual part of a person that some people believe continues to exist in some form after their body has died, or the part of a person that is not physical and experiences deep feelings and emotions:
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- She's one of those people who puts their heart and soul into their work.
- The priest said he was endangering his immortal soul.
- Some people think the soul, unlike the body, is incorruptible.
- Great literature is balsam to the soul.
- I have a sense that we all do have a soul.
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Souls, spirits & ghosts
- apparition
- astral plane
- aura
- chi
- familiar
- ghost
- ghostly
- haunt
- necromancy
- Ouija board
- phantom
- poltergeist
- possessed
- spectral
- spectre
- spirit
- spiritualism
- spook
- zombie
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soul noun (DEEP FEELINGS)
[ U ] the quality of a person or work of art that shows or produces deep good feelings:
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Feelings - general words
- aura
- charged
- emotional
- emotionalism
- feeling
- free-floating
- himself
- in your heart of hearts idiom
- infect
- myself
- ripple
- sentient
- sentiment
- sentimental
- sentimentalism
- soulful
- stab
- tinge
- tingle
- trip
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soul noun (MUSIC)
A2 [ U ] → soul music
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Types of music
- ambient music
- anthemic
- atonal
- backing
- bhangra
- blues
- easy listening
- elegiac
- elevator music
- funk
- gospel
- melodic
- polyphony
- popular music
- raga
- ragga
- Rastafarian
- unaccompanied
- unplayable
- world music
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soul noun (PERSON)
B2 [ C ] a person of a stated type:
B2 no one:
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People in general
- beggar
- bird
- body
- breed
- bugger
- coot
- creature
- devil
- landlubber
- man
- mankind
- number
- party
- peeps
- person
- quarter
- rogue
- sort
- stiff
- the human race
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soul noun (BLACK CULTURE)
[ U ] US a deep understanding of and being proud of the culture of black people
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Art & culture
- aesthetic
- art gallery
- artsy
- arty
- barbarian
- composition
- cultural
- culture
- efflorescence
- esthete
- esthetic
- highbrow
- lowbrow
- middlebrow
- philistine
- pop culture
- soul food
- soulful