soul

1. soul (noun) — sense 1

Definition: 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.

Example: 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.

2. soul (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The spirit or essence of anything.

Example: 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.

3. soul (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Life, energy, vigor.

Example: That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. / But not a ſoul to give our arms ſucceſs.

4. soul (adj) — sense 4

Definition: Characteristic of or pertaining to African American culture.

Example: soul music

5. soul (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To endow with a soul or mind.

6. soul (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To beg on All Soul's Day.

Example: All Souls' Day was celebrated by souling, a custom going back to pre-Reformation days: soul cakers and mummers toured the village begging for a soul cake — a plain, round, flat cake seasoned with spices.