council

See also: Council

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: kounʹ-səl, IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊn.səl/

• 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).
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     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.

2. Discussion or deliberation.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Satan […] void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.

   • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     O great in action and in council wise.

Hyponyms

• synod

Derived terms

• borough council
• city council
• Council Bluffs
• Council Grove
• councillor, councilor
• councilman
• councilmember
• councilwoman
• county council
• district council
• parish council
• Security Council
• town council

 

Related terms

• conciliate
• reconcile

Translations

committee that leads or governs

• Albanian: këshill (sq) m
• Arabic: مَجْلِس m (majlis)
• Armenian: խորհուրդ (hy) (xorhurd)
• Azerbaijani: şura, məclis (az)
• Belarusian: ра́да f (ráda)
• Bengali: পরিষদ (poriśod)
• Breton: kuzul m
• Bulgarian: съве́т (bg) m (sǎvét)
• Burmese: ကောင်စီ (my) (kaungci)
• Catalan: consell (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 理事會／理事会 (zh) (lǐshìhuì), 理事会 (zh) (lǐshìhuì), 委員會／委员会 (zh) (wěiyuánhuì), 委员会 (zh) (wěiyuánhuì)

• Czech: rada (cs) f
• Danish: råd n
• Dutch: raad (nl) m
• Esperanto: konsilio (eo)
• Estonian: nõukogu
• Finnish: neuvosto (fi), valtuusto (fi)
• French: conseil (fr) m
• Georgian: საბჭო (sabč̣o)
• German: Rat (de) m
• Greek: συμβούλιο (el) n (symvoúlio)

  Ancient: συνέδριον n (sunédrion)

• Hausa: majalisa (ha)
• Hebrew: מוֹעָצָה f (mo'atsá)
• Hindi: परिषद (hi) m (pariṣad)
• Hungarian: tanács (hu)
• Icelandic: ráð (is) n
• Indonesian: dewan (id)
• Italian: consiglio (it) m
• Japanese: 評議会 (ひょうぎかい, hyōgikai), 協議会 (きょうぎかい, kyōgikai)
• Kazakh: кеңес (kk) (keñes)
• Khmer: សភា (km) (saʼphiə)
• Korean: 이사회 (isahoe), 평의회 (ko) (pyeong'uihoe)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئەنجومەن (encumen)

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• Kyrgyz: кеңеш (ky) (keŋeş)
• Lao: ສະພາ (sa phā)
• Latin: consilium n
• Latvian: dome f, padome f
• Limburgish: raod (li) m
• Lithuanian: taryba (lt) f
• Macedonian: совет m (sovet)
• Maori: rūnanga
• Mongolian: зөвлөл (mn) (zövlöl)
• Norman: conseil m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: råd (no) n

  Nynorsk: råd (no) n

• Old English: samnung f, ġemōt n, gaderung f
• Persian: شورا (fa) (šurâ, šowrâ), مجلس (fa) (majles)
• Polish: rada (pl)
• Portuguese: conselho (pt) m
• Romanian: sfat n consiliu (ro) m
• Russian: сове́т (ru) m (sovét)
• Serbo-Croatian:

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

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

• Slovak: rada f
• Slovene: svet (sl) m
• Spanish: concejo (es) m
• Swahili: kikao (sw), baraza (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: råd (sv) n, styrelse (sv) c
• Tagalog: sanggunian
• Tajik: шӯро (šüro), маҷлис (majlis)
• Thai: สภา (th) (sà-paa)
• Turkish: konsey (tr)
• Ukrainian: ра́да (uk) f (ráda)
• Urdu: مجلس (majlis)
• Uzbek: kengash (uz), majlis (uz)
• Vietnamese: hội đồng (vi)
• Welsh: cyngor (cy) m
• Yiddish: ראַט m (rat), ראָט m (rot)

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} koncilio
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See also

• counsel