different between mind vs soul

English

Etymology

From Middle English minde, münde, ?emünde, from Old English mynd, ?emynd (“memory, remembrance; memorial, record; act of commemoration; thought, purpose; consciousness, mind, intellect”), from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German gimunt (“mind, memory”), Danish minde (“memory”), Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Gothic ???????????????????? (munds, “memory, mind”), Latin m?ns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit ???? (mánas), Ancient Greek ????? (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Related to Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?nd, IPA^(key): /ma?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd
• Homophone: mined

Noun

mind (plural minds)

1. The ability for rational thought.
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     “ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

2. The ability to be aware of things.

3. The ability to remember things.

4. The ability to focus the thoughts.

5. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.

6. Judgment, opinion, or view.

7. Desire, inclination, or intention.
8. A healthy mental state.

9. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

   • 1854, Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts, p.19:

     The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
10. Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.

    a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind

Synonyms

• (ability for rational thought): brain(s), head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit; See also Thesaurus:intelligence
• (ability to be aware of things): awareness, consciousness, sentience; See also Thesaurus:awareness
• (ability to remember things): memory, recollection; See also Thesaurus:recollection
• (ability to focus the thoughts): attention, concentration, focus
• (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities): genius, intellectual, thinker; See also Thesaurus:genius
• (judgment, opinion, or view): judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view; See also Thesaurus:judgement
• (desire, inclination, or intention): desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood; See also Thesaurus:desire or Thesaurus:intention
• (healthy mental state): sanity; See also Thesaurus:sanity
• (process of): cognition, learning

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mind (third-person singular simple present minds, present participle minding, simple past and past participle minded)

1. To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
   • 1878, Robert Browning, La Saisiaz, line 70:

     Mind to-morrow's early meeting!

2. (now regional) To remember. [from 14th c.]
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVII, lines 25-26:

     The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.

3. (Obsolete or dialectical) To remind; put one's mind on.
   • 1599, William Shakespear, Henry V, Act IV, sc 3:

     Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day: / And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, / For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.

   • c. 1610-11, Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act III, Scene 2:

     Let me be punished, that have minded you Of what you should forget.

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth

     I desire to mind those persons of what Saint Austin hath said.

   • 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, "Of True and False Ideas"

     I shall only mind him, that the contrary supposition, if it could be proved, is of little use.

   • He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.

4. To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
   • ca. 1610–11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, sc. 2:

     Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me / For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; / Perchance he will not mind me.

5. To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
   • 1611, King James Translators, Romans 12:16:

     Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

   • 1907 E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, V [Uniform ed., p. 63]:

     It's the worst thing that can ever happen to you in all your life, and you've got to mind it—you've got to mind it. They'll come saying, 'Bear up—trust to time.' No, no; they're wrong. Mind it.

6. (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that). [from 17th c.]

   Mind you don't knock that glass over.

7. (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed. [from 15th c.]

   You should mind your own business.

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I Scene i:

     My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.

   • 1712, Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 383 (May 20, 1710:

     Upon my coming down, I found all the Children of the Family got about my old Friend, and my Landlady herself, who is a notable prating Gossip, engaged in a Conference with him; being mightily pleased with his stroaking her little Boy upon the Head, and bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book.

   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, page 84:

     Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.

8. To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. [from 17th c.]

   Would you mind my bag for me?

9. To be careful about. [from 18th c.]
   • 2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, ?ISBN, page xv:

     Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.

10. (now Obsolete except in Dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
    • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act IV, sc. 1

      I mind to tell him plainly what I think.

    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

      […] and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.

11. (Britain, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.

    I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.

12. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. [from 16th c.]

    I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.

    Do you mind if I smoke?

Synonyms

• (remember): See also Thesaurus:remember
• (dislike): See also Thesaurus:dislike
• (pay attention to): heed; See also Thesaurus:pay attention
• (look after): See also Thesaurus:care

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• mind on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Verb

mind

1. imperative of minde

Estonian

Etymology

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Pronoun

mind

1. partitive singular of mina

Hungarian

Etymology

Presumably from mi? (“what?”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mind]
• Rhymes: -ind

Pronoun

mind

1. all of it, all of them, each of them (grammatically singular)

   Synonyms: mindegyikük, mindegyik, az összes

Declension

Adverb

mind (not comparable)

1. with everyone, all (usually of persons)

   Synonyms: mindnyájan, mindannyian

2. (formal) increasingly (used with comparative form)

   Synonym: egyre

3. (up) until…, up to… (used with -ig; not (until) sooner than a given point in time)

   Synonym: egészen

   (Note: Most other phrases with this meaning are written without a space: mindaddig, mindeddig, mindmáig, mindmostanáig, mindvégig)

Derived terms

Conjunction

mind

1. (formal) both... and..., as well as

   Synonym: is

References

Further reading

• (pronoun & adverb): mind in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (conjunction): mind in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mendus (“mark, sign”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?in?d/

Noun

mind n (nominative plural mind)

1. A symbol indicating honour or rank; a crown, insignia, emblem

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: mionn
• Scottish Gaelic: mionn

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mind, minn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scots

Etymology

From Old English ?emynd, from Proto-Germanic *gamundiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?end/

Noun

mind (plural minds)

1. memory, recollection.
2. mind.

Verb

mind (third-person singular present minds, present participle mindin, past mindit, past participle mindit)

1. To remember.
2. To remind.
3. To mind, care.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English s?wol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwal? (“soul”).

Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), North Frisian siel, sial (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”) Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon *siala. Modern Danish sjæl, Swedish själ, Norwegian sjel. Icelandic sál may have come from Old English s?wol.

Alternative forms

• sowl (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?l, IPA^(key): /s??l/
• (General American) enPR: s?l, IPA^(key): /so?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophones: Seoul, sole, sowl

Noun

soul (countable and uncountable, plural souls)

1. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
   • 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid

     "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
2. The spirit or essence of anything.
3. Life, energy, vigor.
   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.

4. (music) Soul music.
5. A person, especially as one among many.
   • 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin

     I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.

6. An individual life.

   Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.

7. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:soul.

Synonyms

• (spirit or essence of anything): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist
• (a person): See also Thesaurus:person

Derived terms

Pages starting with “soul”.

Related terms

• mind
• spirit

Translations

Verb

soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

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2. To beg on All Soul's Day.

   Coordinate term: trick-or-treat

Derived terms

• besoul
• dark night of the soul

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French souler (“to satiate”).

Verb

soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

1. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Warner to this entry?)

References

• soul at OneLook Dictionary Search
• soul in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• soul in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Luso-, luso-

Czech

Noun

soul m

1. soul (music style)

Further reading

• soul in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Noun

soul

1. soul music

Declension

Anagrams

• Sulo, solu, sulo, ulos

French

Alternative forms

• soûl, saoul

Etymology 1

From Latin satullus, diminutive of satur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su/
• Homophones: sou, sous

Adjective

soul (feminine singular soule, masculine plural souls, feminine plural soules)

1. drunk

   Synonym: ivre

Derived terms

• souler

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sol/

Noun

soul f (uncountable)

1. soul, soul music

Further reading

• “soul” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?so?l]
• Hyphenation: soul
• Homophone: szól
• Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

soul (plural soulok)

1. (music) soul music

Declension

Derived terms

• soulzene

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Noun

soul m or f (invariable)

1. soul music

Old French

Adjective

soul m (oblique and nominative feminine singular soule)

1. Alternative form of sol

Declension

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?wl/

Noun

soul m inan

1. soul music

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sow/
  • Homophone: sou (when pronounced with the /w/)

Noun

soul m (uncountable)

1. (music) soul music (a music genre combining gospel music, rhythm and blues and often jazz)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Noun

soul m (uncountable)

1. soul, soul music