council

English

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman cuncile, from Old French concile, from Latin concilium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kounʹ-səl, IPA: /ˈkaʊn.səl/, X-SAMPA: /"kaUn.s@l/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: counsel

Noun

council (plural councils)

1. A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
2. Discussion or deliberation.

Hyponyms

• synod

Translations

committee that leads or governs

• Albanian: këshill (sq) m
• Arabic: مجلس (ar) (majles) m
• Armenian: խորհուրդ (hy) (xorhurd) 
• Breton: kuzul (br) m
• Bulgarian: съвет (bg) m (sǎvet)
• Catalan: consell (ca) m
• Czech: rada (cs) f
• Dutch: raad (nl) m
• Esperanto: konsilio (eo)
• Estonian: nõukogu (et)
• Finnish: neuvosto (fi), valtuusto (fi)
• French: conseil (fr) m
• German: Rat (de) m
• Hebrew: מועצה (he) (mo'atza) f
• Hungarian: tanács (hu)
• Italian: consiglio (it) m
• Jèrriais: conseil m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئه‌نجومه‌ن

• Latin: consilium (la) n
• Latvian: dome (lv) f, padome (lv) f
• Maori: rūnanga (mi)
• Portuguese: conselho (pt) m
• Romanian: sfat n consiliu (ro) m
• Russian: совет (ru) (sov'ét) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са́вјет (sh) m (Ijekavian), са́вет (sh) m (Ekavian), вије́ће (sh) n (Ijekavian), ве́ће (sh) n (Ekavian)

  Roman: sávjet (sh) m (Ijekavian), sávet (sh) m (Ekavian), vijéće (sh) n (Ijekavian), véće (sh) n (Ekavian)

• Slovak: rada (sk) f
• Slovene: svet (sl) m
• Spanish: concejo (es) m
• Swahili: kikao (sw)
• Swedish: råd (sv) n, styrelse (sv) c
• Turkish: konsey (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: koncilio (eo)

See also

• counsel