Definitions of soul:

• noun:   the human embodiment of something

  Example: "The soul of honor"

• noun:   a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s

  Example: "Soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement"

• noun:   deep feeling or emotion
• noun:   the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
• noun:   a human being