Soulとは意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• sowl (古風な用法)

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: sōl, IPA^(key): /səʊl/
• (General American) enPR: sōl, IPA^(key): /soʊl/
• Rhymes: -əʊl
• Homophones: Seoul, sole, sowl

名詞

soul (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 souls)

1. (religion, folklore) 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.
   • 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid

     "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 46:

     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.

   • 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:

     Flowey: See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being!

2. The spirit or essence of anything.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     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.

   • 1928, Roosevelt, Franklin D., The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎^[1], Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 769015, OL 6719278M, pages 36-37:

     It is possible with only these qualities for a man to be a reasonably efficient President, but there is one thing more needed to make him a great President. It is that quality of soul which makes a man loved by little children, by dumb animals, that quality of soul which makes him a strong help to all those in sorrow or in trouble, that quality which makes him not merely admired, but loved by all the people - the quality of sympathetic understanding of the human heart, of real interest in one's fellow men.

3. Life, energy, vigor.
   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.

4. (music) Soul music.
5. A person, especially as one among many.
   • 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin

     I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.

6. An individual life.

   Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.

7. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

引用

For quotations using this term, see Citations:soul.

同意語

• (spirit または essence of anything): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist
• (a person): See also Thesaurus:person

派生語

Pages starting with “soul”.

関連する語

• mind
• spirit

派生した語

動詞

soul (三人称単数 現在形 souls, 現在分詞 souling, 過去形および過去分詞形 souled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

2. To beg on All Soul's Day.

   Coordinate term: trick-or-treat

   • 1981, Geoffrey Scard, Squire and tenant: life in rural Cheshire, 1760-1900, page 93:

     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.

派生語

• besoul
• dark night of the soul

語源 2

Borrowed from French souler (“to satiate”).

動詞

soul (三人称単数 現在形 souls, 現在分詞 souling, 過去形および過去分詞形 souled)

1. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.
   • 1741, unknown [formerly attributed to Daniel Defoe], The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, the British Amazon, commonly called Mother Ross: […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for R[ichard] Montagu, OCLC 221024157, part II, page 76:

     During my Stay here, I was going to take Pot-Luck with Colonel Ingram, and accidentally meeting him in the Way, I told him I deſigned to ſoul a Plate with him, [...]

参照

• soul at OneLook Dictionary Search
• soul in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• “soul” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

アナグラム

• Luso-, luso-