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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.countableuncountable
- 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the
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The spirit or essence of anything.countableuncountable
- From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
- "There's a vibrancy that comes from the building's historic soul metting the rhythm of the Caribbean," says Monnier.
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Life, energy, vigor.countableuncountable
- That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. / But not a ſoul to give our arms ſucceſs.
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Cultural consciousness and pride among people of African American heritage.countableuncountable
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A strong positive feeling of intense sensitivity and emotional fervor conveyed especially by African American performers.countableuncountable
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Soul music.countableuncountable
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A person, especially as one among many.countableuncountable
- 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far a
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An individual life.countableuncountable
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
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A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.countableuncountable
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