Аннотация:The article discusses the semantics of all-Russian words ‘spirit’ and ‘soul’. In dialects all-Russian words become dominants of multicomponent synonymic series, centers of large word-formative nests, whose units are also multivalued. In their original non-derivative meanings they have various differences from the literary language, first of all, differences in lexical compatibility. Being the names of the basic universal concepts, all-Russian words reveal the originality of the conceptual content. This allows us to affirm possible variance of the national world view.