HEART AND SOUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heart and soul mean? 

• HEART AND SOUL (noun)
  The noun HEART AND SOUL has 1 sense:

1. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

  Familiarity information: HEART AND SOUL used as a noun is very rare.

• HEART AND SOUL (adverb)
  The adverb HEART AND SOUL has 1 sense:

1. with complete faith

  Familiarity information: HEART AND SOUL used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEART AND SOUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

center; centre; core; essence; gist; heart; heart and soul; inwardness; kernel; marrow; meat; nitty-gritty; nub; pith; substance; sum

Context example:

the nub of the story

Hypernyms ("heart and soul" is a kind of...):

cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heart and soul"):

bare bones ((plural) the most basic facts or elements)

hypostasis ((metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality)

haecceity; quiddity (the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other)

quintessence (the purest and most concentrated essence of something)

stuff (a critically important or characteristic component)

• HEART AND SOUL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With complete faith

Synonyms:

body and soul; heart and soul

Context example:

she was with him heart and soul

 Context examples 

Well, from that time Sarah hated me with her whole heart and soul, and she is a woman who can hate, too.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then I am with you heart and soul.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries which I hoped to make.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I echoed, with all my heart and soul, that it was like himself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Remember it, and try with heart and soul to master this quick temper, before it brings you greater sorrow and regret than you have known today.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In his work she would discern what his heart and soul were like, and she would come to understand something, a little something, of the stuff of his dreams and the strength of his power.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She loves me with her whole heart and soul, and never more than now.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And then, my dear, before I could say a word he began pouring out a perfect torrent of love-making, laying his very heart and soul at my feet.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was easy to promise self-abnegation when self was wrapped up in another, and heart and soul were purified by a sweet example.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)