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Definition of council

a meeting of people for consultation; "emergency council"
a body serving in an administrative capacity; "student council"
(Christianity) an assembly or theologians and bishops and other representative of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine

Hyponyms: indaba, Jirga, synod, Security Council, SC, Trusteeship Council, TC, Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC, North Atlantic Council, NAC, city council, executive council, panchayat, panchayet, punchayet, privy council, works council, soviet, world council, Council of Chalcedon, Council of Trent, Lateran Council

Language Translations:
Albanian: këshill		Arabic: Majles/مجلس
Catalan: consell		Croatian: savjet
Dutch: raad		Finnish: neuvosto
German: Rat		Hebrew: מועצה
Hungarian: tanács		Italian: consiglio
Portuguese: conselho		Romanian: sfat
Slovak: rada		Slovenian: svet
Spanish: concejo		Swedish: råd

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