Dictionary Definitions of the Soul

1: the immaterial essence or substance, animating principle, or actuating cause of life or of the individual life

2a: the psychical or spiritual principle in general shared by or embodied in individual human beings or all beings having a rational and spiritual nature

b: the psychical or spiritual nature of the universe related to the physical world as the human soul to the human body

3a: the immortal part of man having permanent individual existence ...

b: a person's total self in its living unity and wholeness ...

4a: a seat of real life, vitality, or action: personality, psyche

b: an animating or essential part: a vital principle actuating something ...

5: spiritual or moral force ...

6: human being: person.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary, p. 2176