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# spiritual

«spiritual» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do with the human spirit, feelings and soul, rather…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (spiritual); noun (a spiritual, spirituals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To do with the human spirit, feelings and soul, rather than the body or things you own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/#m1)

2) To do with religion or deep beliefs: a spiritual leader. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/#m2)

3) Noun: a religious song first sung by enslaved African Americans, such as «Swing Low, Sweet Chariot». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In religious education and personal lessons spiritual development is about values, wonder and meaning. In music lessons spirituals are an important type of song that led to gospel and the blues. In everyday life people may feel something spiritual in nature or music.

### examples

- The Dalai Lama is a spiritual leader. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/#x1)
- Many people find walking in the mountains a spiritual experience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/#x2)
- We sang an old spiritual in music class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/#x3)
- Prayer is part of her spiritual life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/#x4)
- The choir sang «Swing Low, Sweet Chariot», a famous spiritual. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/#x5)
- Art can feed your spiritual side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/#x6)
- This belief is not peculiar to the Slavonians but it is one of the characteristic features of their spiritual creed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/#x7)

### note

Linked: spirit, spirituality. Not the same as «spirited» (lively). «Spirits» can also mean strong alcohol, but «spiritual» never does.

### In the corpora

- ["Crossed over" means died; it is a gentle, often spiritual phrase.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/23/)
- ["Spiritual but not religious" means a person does not belong to or attend any organised religion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spiritual» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiritual/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.