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Definition of soul noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [countable] the spiritual part of a person, believed to exist after death. He believed his immortal soul was in peril. The howling wind sounded like the wailing of lost souls (= the spirits of dead people who are not in heaven).

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There are 35 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun soul, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

The noun soul can mean an individual human being, but it can also mean essence of a human being. If you believe the soul is immortal, you believe that even when your physical body dies, some other part of you lives on.

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Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhḗ, of ψύχειν psýkhein, "to breathe", cf. Latin anima) comprises the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, free will, feeling, consciousness, qualia, memory, perception, thinking, and so on.

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Learn the various meanings and uses of the word soul in English, from the spiritual part of a person to the central or most important part of something. See examples, synonyms, and related terms for soul.