Soul

Definition

soul /sǝƱl/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ဝိညာဥ္။ လိပ္ျပာ။ Do you believe in the immortality of the soul? ၂။ စိတ္ထား။ စိတ္ရင္း။ အဇၩတၱ။ စ႐ိုက္လကၡဏာ။ အသည္းႏွလံုး။ Deep down in her soul she felt betrayed. ❍ Music and dancing are their very soul. ၃။ [C, U] လူစိတ္။ အသည္းႏွလံုး။ အသက္(ဝင္မႈ၊ ပါမႈ)။ a man with no soul ❍ a very polished performance, but lacking soul. ၄။ [sing] the ~ of sth စံထားစရာ။ စံျပ။ He is the soul of honour/discretion. ၅။ [C] ဝိညာဥ္။ လိပ္ျပာ။ departed/immortal souls. ၆။ [C] (က) (မဟုတ္ ဝါက်၌) ပုဂၢိဳလ္။ သူ။ There wasn't a soul to be seen (ie No one was in sight). ❍ Don't tell a soul (ie Do not tell anybody). (ခ) (ခ်စ္ခင္ျခင္း၊ သနားျခင္း စသည္ကို တြဲဖက္ နာမဝိေသသနအရ ျပဆိုသည့္စကား)။ သူ၊ ခမ်ာ စသည္။ He's a dear old soul. ❍ She's lost all her money, poor soul. ၇။ (also soul music ) [U] အေမရိကန္လူမည္းတို႔၏ ခံစားမႈ အသားေပးေတးဂီတ။ the sound of soul ❍ a soul singer. ❏ soul-destroying adj (ဖန္တစ္ရာေတ၍) ပ်င္းမုန္းၿငီးေငြ႕ ဖြယ္ရာ။ a soul-destroying job. ❏ soul food n [U] ( US ) (အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေတာင္ပိုင္း) ကပၸလီ႐ိုးရာအစားအစာ။ ❏ soulful /-fl/ adj ခံစားခ်က္ပါေသာ။ ခံစားခ်က္ျပင္းျပေသာ။ a soulful look/voice/tune. ❏ soulfully /-fǝli/ adv ေဆြးေဆြးေျမ႕ေျမ႕။ ရီရီေဝေဝ။ soulfully expressive eyes. soulfulness n [U] ❏ soulless /'sǝƱllǝs/ adj လူမဆန္ေသာ။ အသက္မပါေသာ။ ၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္ရာ။ soulless work in the factory ❍ soulless office buildings. ❏ soul mate n စိတ္တူကိုယ္မွ် အေဖာ္။ ❏ soul music n [U] = SOUL ၇ ❏ soul-searching n [U] မိမိကိုယ္မိမိ ေဝဖန္ျခင္း။ After a great deal of soul-searching he finally decided to leave home. ❏ upon my soul! [ IDM ] ( dated ) (ထိတ္လန္႔ျခင္း၊ အံ့အား သင့္ျခင္းျပ အာေမၮိတ္)။

Examples

1. I promise I won’t tell a soul.
2. [not a soul] : There wasn’t a soul to be seen.
3. Her husband was killed in the war
4. poor soul.
5. A village of only 170 souls
6. His poetry contains many beautiful images
7. but it lacks soul.
8. If you’re not touched by this film
9. you’ve no soul.
10. [the soul of the city/university/community etc] : The loss of local shops has destroyed the soul of the community.