How do you use the word "soul" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "soul": There was not a bloody soul. Shine on my brilliant soul.

Soul Meaning

/səʊl/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe 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.

nounThe spirit or essence of anything.

Sentence Examples

There was not a bloody soul.

Shine on my brilliant soul.

He believed his immortal soul was in peril.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

person someone somebody

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The monk believed that the ____ lives on after the physical body dies.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Many people believe that the ____ is the immortal part of a human that survives after death.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”), of an uncertain ultimate origin (see there for further information). Cognates Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Alemannic German Seel (“soul”), Central Franconian Siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”), German Low German Seel (“soul”), Luxembourgish Séil (“soul, spirit”), Vilamovian zejł, zəjł, zyił (“soul”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌰 (saiwala, “soul”). Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon sēola. Modern Danish sjæl (“soul”), Icelandic sál (“soul”), Norwegian Bokmål sjel (“soul”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjel, sål (“soul”), Swedish själ (“soul”), Finnish sielu (“soul”) may have come from Old English sāwol.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

"Flowey: See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being!" — 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:

"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." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"It is possible with only these qualities for a man to be a reasonably efficient President, but there is one thing more needed to make him a great President. It is that quality of soul which makes a man loved by little children, by dumb animals, that quality of soul which makes him a strong help to all those in sorrow or in trouble, that quality which makes him not merely admired, but loved by all the people - the quality of sympathetic understanding of the human heart, of real interest in one's fellow men." — 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, pages 36–37:

""There's a vibrancy that comes from the building's historic soul metting the rhythm of the Caribbean," says Monnier." — 2026 May 26, Julie Coe, quoting Annie Monnier, “The Rest is History”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 36:

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