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sielu — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chattel noun An item of movable personal property, such as furniture, livestock or a vehicle, as distinct from land and buildings.
  • ghost noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
  • soul noun The spiritual or immaterial part of a person, often believed to continue after death.

Senses

sielu is used for these senses in English:

  • chattel A slave.
  • ghost A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
  • moving spirit Someone who provides significant impetus or guidance in a given venture, movement, enterprise etc.
  • soul A person, especially as one among many.

chattel — full definition

  1. noun An item of movable personal property, such as furniture, livestock or a vehicle, as distinct from land and buildings.
  2. noun A person treated as the outright property of another, especially an enslaved person.

ghost — full definition

  1. noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
  2. verb To suddenly stop all communication with someone, especially in a relationship, without any explanation.
  3. verb To secretly write or produce work credited to someone else (short for ghostwrite).
  4. verb To make a visual element look faint or grayed-out to show it can't currently be used.

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