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say it: sohl
soul is a noun meaning "the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life". It is pronounced /ˈsoʊl/ — sohl. It carries 5 recorded senses.
deep feeling or emotion
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for soul come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.