council meaning
EN
[ˈkaʊn.səl] 
US WCouncil
- A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions.
- A member of a council may be referred to as a councillor, or by the gender-specific titles of councilman and councilwoman.
- NounPLcouncils
- 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.
- Discussion or deliberation.
- A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Fox news reported at 11:01 a.m., august 5, 2006, that the united states and France have agreed to a un security council resolution. whoop de doo!
- The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
- PST toxins, gonyautoxins 1 and 4 (GTX1&4-c), N-sulfocarbamoyl-gonyautoxin 2 and 3 (C1&C2-b) and saxitoxin (STX-f) (National Research Council Canada), were tested at varying concentrations.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The scheme originated with the governor and council.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of council in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en councillor
- en councils
- en councilor
- en councilmen
- en councilors
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "council" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.