"old soul" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: old souls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} old soul (plural old souls)
  1. A reincarnated person. Categories (topical): Afterlife
    Sense id: en-old_soul-en-noun-kvzRpTmj Disambiguation of Afterlife: 51 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 50 50
  2. A person of unusual maturity. Categories (topical): Afterlife
    Sense id: en-old_soul-en-noun-XC5-mFlH Disambiguation of Afterlife: 51 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): People
Disambiguation of People: 0 0

Inflected forms

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