1. The animating and vital principle in human beings, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. 2. The spiritual nature of human beings, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. 3. The disembodied spirit of a dead human being; a shade. 4. God. 5. Garrison Keillor 6. Marvin Kalb 7. I am the very soul of discretion. 8. Alec Guinness 9. A sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African-Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music. 10. A strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer, or an artist. 11. Soul music.
