living soul
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person
Example Sentences
- "We may add a table, a seat, perhaps two stools. A poor dwelling and very bare; but then it is furnished with a living soul! The fire cheers her, the blessed box-twigs guard her bed, accompanied now and again by a pretty bunch of vervein."
- "However, I’ll tell you this much . . . and if nothing comes of it you must never breathe a word about it to a living soul."
- "‘When I was a young man out there in the scrubs, me and Dougald tailing them beasts from one melon hole to another day after day, never seeing another living soul, I'd ride along dreaming of a girl like you and forget where I was.’"
- ""My Gruncle built it himself. 'Log by log, with only my own two bare hands, without the help of another living soul,'” she said in her best Gruncle imitation."
Inflected Forms
living souls (plural)