council
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English
Etymology
From Middle English counseil, conseil, from late Old English cuncile, from Anglo-Norman cuncile and Old French concile, from Latin concilium. Doublet of concelho.
Pronunciation
Noun
council (plural councils)
- A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
- Discussion or deliberation.
- 2008 [1667], John Milton, chapter 6, in W. Kerrigan, J. Rumrich, S. Fallon, editors, Paradise Lost (Modern Library Classics) (poetry), Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 212, lines 414–416:
- Satan […] void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night;
- 1715–1720, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book IV”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott , →OCLC:
- O great in action and in council wise.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- afforced council
- borough council
- canine council
- church council
- city council
- council area
- Council Bluffs
- council estate
- Council Grove
- council house
- council-housed
- council housing
- council housing estate
- councillor, councilor
- councilman
- councilmember
- council of war
- council pop
- council tax
- councilwoman
- county council
- district council
- domestic policy council
- ecumenical council
- federal council
- kennel council
- mayor-council
- minority council
- order-in-council
- order in council
- order of council
- parish council
- parochial church council
- privy council
- Security Council
- student council
- town council
- unitary council
- Whitley council
- works council
Related terms
Translations
committee that leads or governs
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