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councils

councils is the plural of council.

councils is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Phrases with councils

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Questions about councils

What is councils the plural of?
Councils is the plural of council.

Words near councils in the dictionary

  1. councilour
  2. councilours
  3. councilpeople
  4. councilperson
  5. councilpersons
  6. councils
  7. councils of war
  8. councilwoman
  9. councilwomen
  10. Cound
  11. Coundon

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