1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of black Americans or their culture
2. Designed for or controlled by blacks

Množina: souls

ETYM Old Eng. soule, saule, as. sâwel, sâwl; akin to OFries. sôle, os. seola, Dutch ziel, German seele, Old High Germ. soela.
(Homonym: sole).
1. Deep feeling or emotion; SYN. soulfulness.
2. The human embodiment of something.
3. The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life; SYN. psyche.
According to many religions, an intangible part of a human being that survives the death of the physical body. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all teach that at the end of the world each soul will be judged and assigned to heaven or hell on its merits.
According to orthodox Jewish doctrine, most souls first spend time in purgatory to be purged of their sins, and are then removed to paradise. In Christianity the soul is that part of the person that can be redeemed from sin through divine grace.
In other religions, such as Hinduism, the soul is thought to undergo reincarnation until the individual reaches enlightenment and is freed from the cycle of rebirth. According to the teachings of Buddhism, no permanent self or soul exists.
In his 1990 New Year’s message, Pope John Paul ii asserted that “animals possess a soul and that man must love and feel.
Solidarity with our smaller brethren”. This statement is still a source of considerable debate within the Roman Catholic Church.

Množina: soul brothers

A black male.

Množina: soul foods

Food (as chitterlings, ham hocks, and collard greens) traditionally eaten by southern black Americans

Množina: soul kisses

An open-mouthed kiss in which one's tongue is inserted into the other person's mouth; SYN. deep kiss, French kiss.

Množina: soul mates

Someone for whom one has a deep affinity.

Singular of soul mates is soul mate.

Množina: soul musics

Emotionally intense style of rhythm and blues sung by, among others, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, and Al Green (1946– ). A synthesis of blues, gospel music, and jazz, it emerged in the 1950s. Sometimes all popular music made by African-Americans is labeled soul music.

Destructive to the spirit or soul.

Množina: soul-searchings

A penetrating examination of one's own beliefs and motives; SYN. self-analysis.

Having a soul; possessing soul and feeling — usually used in combination

Full of or expressing deep emotion

In a soulful manner.

Množina: soulfulnesses

(Homonym: soulless).
Lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling.