soul
The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…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.
» The man sold his soul to the devil.
Der Mann verkaufte dem Teufel seine Seele.
Этот человек продал душу дьяволу.
Ця людина продала душу дияволу.
Чоловік продав душу дияволу.
Meaning
9 senses(countable, uncountable)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.
Seele
душа́dušá
душа́dušá
(countable, uncountable)The spirit or essence of anything.
(countable, uncountable)Life, energy, vigor.
Geist
душа́dušá, духdux
духdux
(countable, uncountable)Cultural consciousness and pride among people of African American heritage.
(countable, uncountable)A strong positive feeling of intense sensitivity and emotional fervor conveyed especially by African American performers.
(countable, uncountable)Soul music.
Soul
со́улsóul
со́улsóul
(countable, uncountable)A person, especially as one among many.
Seele
(countable, uncountable)An individual life.
Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
(countable, uncountable)A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
Examples
721 sentencesThe man sold his soul to the devil.
Ця людина продала душу дияволу.
ruЭтот человек продал душу дьяволу.
deDer Mann verkaufte dem Teufel seine Seele.
Do you think animals have souls?
Гадаєш, тварини мають душу?
ruКак ты думаешь, у животных есть душа?
He got down on his knees and prayed for the souls of the deceased.
Він став на коліна та молився за душі померлих.
ruОн встал на колени и помолился за души усопших.
deEr ging auf die Knie und betete für die Seelen der Verstorbenen.
I won't sell my soul.
Я не продам свою душу.
ruЯ не буду продавать свою душу.
deIch werde meine Seele nicht verkaufen.
There wasn't a soul in sight.
ruНе было видно ни души.
deEs war weit und breit keine Menschenseele zu sehen.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spiriFrom 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).
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Forms
plural: soulsSynonyms
9 synonyms- deep feeling or emotion:soulfulness
- the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life:psyche
- a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential:personindividualsomeonesomebodymortal
Word family
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