council

See also: Council

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

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aʊnsəl
• 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: 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.

2. 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[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

     O great in action and in council wise.

Hyponyms

• synod

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

• conciliate
• reconcile

Translations

committee that leads or governs

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

  Mandarin: 理事會／理事会 (zh) (lǐshìhuì), 委員會／委员会 (zh) (wěiyuánhuì), 市政廳／市政厅 (zh) (shìzhèngtīng) (city council)

• Coptic: ⲙⲁⲛϩⲉⲙⲥⲓ m (manhemsi)
• Cornish: konsel
• Czech: rada (cs) f
• Danish: råd n
• Dutch: raad (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ḏꜣḏꜣt f)
• Esperanto: konsilio (eo)
• Estonian: nõukogu
• Finnish: neuvosto (fi), valtuusto (fi)
• French: conseil (fr) m
• Galician: consello m
• Georgian: საბჭო (sabč̣o)
• German: Rat (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳𐍃 f (gafaurds)
• Greek: συμβούλιο (el) n (symvoúlio)

  Ancient: συνέδριον n (sunédrion)

• Hausa: majalisa (ha)
• Hebrew: מוֹעָצָה (he) f (mo'atsá)
• Hindi: परिषद (hi) m (pariṣad), मजलिस (hi) f (majlis)
• Hungarian: tanács (hu)
• Icelandic: ráð (is) n
• Indonesian: dewan (id), konsil (id), majelis (id)
• Interlingua: consilio, concilio
• 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)
• Karakalpak: keńes
• Kazakh: кеңес (kk) (keñes), мәжіліс (mäjılıs)
• Khakas: чӧп
• Khmer: សភា (km) (saʼphiə)
• Korean: 이사회(理事會) (isahoe), 평의회(評議會) (ko) (pyeong'uihoe)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەنجومەن (encumen)

  Northern Kurdish: konsey (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кеңеш (ky) (keŋeş), мажилис (majilis)
• Lao: ສະພາ (sa phā)
• Latin: consilium n
• Latvian: dome f, padome f
• Limburgish: raod (li) m
• Lithuanian: taryba (lt) f
• Macedonian: совет m (sovet)
• Malay: majlis (ms), dewan (ms)
• Maori: rūnanga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зөвлөл (mn) (zövlöl)

• Norman: conseil m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: råd (no) n

  Nynorsk: råd (no) n

• Old English: samnung f, ġemōt n, gaderung f
• Ottoman Turkish: مجلس (meclis)
• Pashto: شورا (ps) f (šorã), مجلس m (maǰlᶕs)
• Persian: شورا (fa) (šurâ, šowrâ), مجلس (fa) (majles)
• Polish: rada (pl)
• Portuguese: conselho (pt) m
• Romanian: sfat (ro) n, consiliu (ro) n
• Russian: сове́т (ru) m (sovét)
• Sanskrit: परिषद् (sa) f (pariṣad)
• 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 n (Ijekavian), véće n (Ekavian)

• Sicilian: cunzigghiu (scn) m, junta (scn) f
• 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)
• Tatar: мәҗлис (mäclis)
• Thai: สภา (th) (sà-paa)
• Tocharian B: wertsiya
• Turkish: konsey (tr), meclis (tr)
• Turkmen: geňeş, mejlis
• Tuvan: чөвүлел (çövülel)
• Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎃𐎗 (pḫr)
• Ukrainian: ра́да (uk) f (ráda)
• Urdu: مجلس f (majlis)
• Uyghur: كېڭەش (kë'ngesh), مەجلىس (mejlis)

  Cyrillic: кеңәш (kë'ngesh)

• Uzbek: kengash (uz), majlis (uz)
• Vietnamese: hội đồng (vi)
• Welsh: cyngor (cy) m
• Yiddish: ראַט m (rat), ראָט m (rot)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} koncilio

See also

• counsel