spiritual

spiritual
[[t]spɪ̱rɪtʃuəl[/t]]
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1) ADJ Spiritual means relating to people's thoughts and beliefs, rather than to their bodies and physical surroundings.

She lived entirely by spiritual values, in a world of poetry and imagination.

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spiritually ADV

Our whole programme is spiritually oriented but not religious.

spirituality [[t]spɪ̱rɪtʃuæ̱lɪti[/t]] N-UNCOUNT

...the peaceful spirituality of Japanese culture.

2) ADJ Spiritual means relating to people's religious beliefs.

The spiritual leader of Ireland's 3.7 million Catholics...

A man in priestly clothes offered spiritual guidance.

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3) N-COUNT A spiritual is a religious song of the type originally sung by black slaves in America.
4) PHRASE: N inflects Your spiritual home is the place where you feel that you belong, usually because your ideas or attitudes are the same as those of the people who live there.

English dictionary. 2008.

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  • Spiritual — may refer to:*Spirituality, a concern with matters of the spirit *Spiritual, an African American song, usually with a Christian religious text *Spiritual dance *Spiritual possession, a concept of many religions, where it is believed that a demon… …   Wikipedia

  • Spiritual — Smn geistliches Lied amerikanischer Schwarzer per. Wortschatz fach. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. L. spīrituālis ist geistig, geistlich , daher (Negro )Spiritual für das geistliche Lied der Schwarzen in den amerikanischen Südstaaten.    Ebenso nndl.… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • spiritual — spiritual, spirituous The two words now have distinct meanings, spiritual being the general word relating to the spirit or soul, and spirituous referring to distilled alcoholic drinks. In older writing up to the end of the 19c spirituous is… …   Modern English usage

  • Spiritual — Spir it*u*al, n. A spiritual function, office, or affair. See {Spirituality}, 2. [1913 Webster] He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. Lowell. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • spiritual — ► ADJECTIVE 1) relating to or affecting the human spirit as opposed to material or physical things. 2) relating to religion or religious belief. ► NOUN (also negro spiritual) ▪ a religious song of a kind associated with black Christians of the… …   English terms dictionary

  • spiritual — index incorporeal, intangible, sacrosanct, solemn Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • spiritual — spiritual:1.⇨geistlich(1)–2.⇨übersinnlich …   Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

  • spiritual — → góspel …   Diccionario panhispánico de dudas

  • spiritual — (adj.) of or concerning the spirit (especially in religious aspects), c.1300, from O.Fr. spirituel (12c.), from L. spiritualis, from spiritus of breathing, of the spirit (see SPIRIT (Cf. spirit)). Meaning of or concerning the church is attested… …   Etymology dictionary

  • spiritual — spiritùāl m <G spirituála> DEFINICIJA kat. nadzorni svećenik u novicijatu …   Hrvatski jezični portal

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