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n. An assembly of persons called together for consultation, deliberation, or discussion.

n. A body of people elected or appointed to serve as administrators, legislators, or advisors.

n. An assembly of church officials and theologians convened for regulating matters of doctrine and discipline.

n. The discussion or deliberation that takes place in such an assembly or body.

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

n. discussion or deliberation

n. An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice.

n. A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly.

n. Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation.

n. Any assembly of persons summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice: as, a council of physicians; a family council.

n. A body of men specially designated or selected to advise a sovereign in the administration of the government; a privy council: as, the president of the council; in English history, an order in council. See privy council, below.

n. In many of the British colonies, a body assisting the governor in either an executive or a legislative capacity, or in both.

n. In the Territories of the United States, the upper branch of the legislature. The term was used to denote a kind of upper house during the colonial period, and was retained in this sense for a few years by some of the States.

n. A common council. See below.

n. In the New Testament, the Sanhedrim, a Jewish court or parliament, with functions partly judicial, partly legislative, and partly ecclesiastical. See Sanhedrim.

n. In ecclesiastical history: An assembly of prelates and theologians convened for the purpose of regulating matters of doctrine and discipline in the church.

n. Any body or group of persons wielding political power.

n. Same as counsel. See counsel.

n. A Lutheran body organized in the United States in 1866 by the Pennsylvania synod and others which were not in sympathy with the attitude of the general synod toward the Augsburg Confession. The council proclaimed strict adherence to the Lutheran faith.

n. a body serving in an administrative capacity

n. (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

n. a meeting of people for consultation

"Council hearing on rent control -- council candidate debate at Ward 4 Dems event at Emery Rec Center"

council table   

council of appointment    council of ancients    national council    council of defense    council of five hundred    congregational council    general council    cabinet council    council of state    county council   

synod    parliament    congress    diet    convocation    assembly    meeting    convention    deliberation    consultation   

counsel    counsell   

committee    parliament    court    governor    government    representative    assembly    official    meeting    commission