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soul

noun (PERSON)
 
 
/səʊl/ US  /soʊl/

Definition

B2 [C] a person of a stated type: She's a happy little soul. Some poor soul had fallen 500 metres to their death.People in general not a soul B2 no one: By the time I arrived there wasn't a soul there.People in general
(Definition of soul noun (PERSON) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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