soul

n

1. spirit, animating principle, vital spirit, pneuma, breath of life, anima, life; consciousness, psyche, mind, intellect, Gk. Philos. nous; reason, understanding, intelligence; self, ego, inner self, true being.

2. ghost, wraith, disembodied spirit, presence, Gk. and Rom. Religion. shade, specter, apparition, phantom, eidolon.

3. heart, center of emotion, seat of feelings or sentiments.

4. human being, human, being, person, mortal, life, creature, member of the human race, Adamite; individual, entity, personage, personality, persona; living soul, spirit; world soul, anima mundi, Weltgist.

5. essential part, essence, quiddity, quintessence, substance, sum and substance; marrow, pith, heart of the matter, crux, gist, Inf. nub, meat, nitty-gritty; core, inner core, heart, center, nucleus, kernel; base, bottom, root.

6. embodiment, incarnation, personification.

7.Informal. negritude, Blackness, intense sensitivity, emotional fervor, feeling.

adj

8.Informal. Black, Negro; earthy, intense, soulful, Trademark. Motown.