Word.ws English Dictionary

body and soul

body and soul adverb: wholeheartedly.

Adverb

body and soul (not comparable)

  1. Wholeheartedly.
    • You still think she's immune? She's joined herself to me, body and soul!1956, Cyril Hume, Forbidden Planet, spoken by Commander Adams (Leslie Nielsen)
    • My life a wreck you’re making / You know I’m yours for just the taking / I’d gladly surrender / Myself to you, body and soul.2011, “Body and Soul”, in Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton (lyrics), Johnny Green (music), Duets II, performed by Tony Bennett, Amy Winehouse

body and soul meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Indonesian

body and soul in Tamil

ஆவிசீவாளம்

body and soul in Malayalam

entirely, completely, totally
മനസ്സും ശരീരവുംകൊണ്ട്, പൂർണ്ണമായി, നിശ്ചക്രം, മുഴുവനായി, ശിരസാ, സർവ്വാത്മനാ

body and soul in Indonesian

Translations
jiwa dan raga, jiwa raga

Questions about body and soul

What does body and soul mean?
Body and soul means wholeheartedly.
What is body and soul in Tamil?
Body and soul in Tamil is ஆவிசீவாளம். See Body and soul meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is body and soul?
Body and soul is an adverb.

Words near body and soul in the dictionary

  1. Bodumungnafushi
  2. Bodurehaa
  3. Bodwell
  4. Bodwells
  5. body
  6. body and soul
  7. body armor
  8. body armour
  9. body art
  10. body bag
  11. body bags

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: body and soul (page history and authors); body and soul (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); body and soul (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “body and soul.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/body_and_soul. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.