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councell

councell is the obsolete spelling of council.

Meaning of council

Noun

council (plural councils)

  1. 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.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
    1. (UK, metonymically) A local authority.
  2. Discussion or deliberation.
    • Satan […] void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night;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

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Forms of councell

pluralcouncells

Questions about councell

What is councell the obsolete spelling of?
Councell is the obsolete spelling of council.

Words near councell in the dictionary

  1. coumetarol
  2. coumurrayin
  3. coun
  4. Coun.
  5. Counce
  6. councell
  7. councells
  8. Counces
  9. council
  10. council area
  11. council areas

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