soul

noun

1. the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
2. a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential"there was too much for one person to do"
3. deep feeling or emotion
4. the human embodiment of something"the soul of honor"
5. a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s"soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement"