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单词 soul
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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:

She suffered greatly while she was alive, so let us hope her soul is now at peace.

More examples

  • 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:

If you can't enjoy this music you've got no soul.
For me her paintings somehow lack soul.

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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:

She's a happy little soul.
Some poor soul had fallen 500 metres to their death.
not a soul

B2 no one:

By the time I arrived there wasn't a soul there.

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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
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