council

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a meeting of people for consultation

   emergency council

2. 2
   noun

   a body serving in an administrative capacity

   student council

3. 3
   noun

   A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   Discussion or deliberation.

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

5. 5
   noun

   Short for church council

   the First Council of Nicaea

6. 6
   noun

   (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine

7. 7
   name

   A surname.

8. 8
   name

   A male given name.

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.