soul – English noun declension

English noun forms of soul

Noun: soul
Singularsoul
Pluralsouls

Sample Sentences

  • 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.
  • 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. [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, page 46:]
  • Flowey: See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being! [2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:]
  • 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. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • 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. [1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, pages 36–37:]
  • "There's a vibrancy that comes from the building's historic soul metting the rhythm of the Caribbean," says Monnier. [2026 May 26, Julie Coe, quoting Annie Monnier, “The Rest is History”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 36:]
  • That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. / But not a ſoul to give our arms ſucceſs. [1725, [Edward Young], “Satire III. To the Right Honourable Mr. Dodington.”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 52:]
  • 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.
  • Ordo Malleus''' Inquisitor: I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world, and consign a million souls to oblivion. [2011, Relic Entertainment, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, scene: Exterminatus declared on Typhon Primaris:]
  • Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.

Etymology

1. From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”), of an uncertain ultimate origin (see there for further information).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Alemannic German Seel (“soul”), Central Franconian Siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”), German Low German Seel (“soul”), Luxembourgish Séil (“soul, spirit”), Vilamovian zejł, zəjł, zyił (“soul”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌰 (saiwala, “soul”). Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon sēola. Modern Danish sjæl (“soul”), Icelandic sál (“soul”), Norwegian Bokmål sjel (“soul”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjel, sål (“soul”), Swedish själ (“soul”), Finnish sielu (“soul”) may have come from Old English sāwol. See: Middle English Nouns 'soule', Dutch Nouns 'ziel', German Nouns 'Seele', Gothic Nouns '𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌰', Danish Nouns 'sjæl', Icelandic Nouns 'sál', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'sjel', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'sjel', Swedish Nouns 'själ', Finnish Nouns 'sielu'.

Verbs referencing "soul"

German Nouns Seele, Finnish Nouns soul, French Nouns soul, Italian Nouns soul, German Nouns Soul, Finnish Nouns sielu, Dutch Nouns ziel, Swedish Nouns själ, Russian Nouns соул, Ukrainian Nouns соул.