• enPR: kounʹ-səl, IPA: /ˈkaʊn.səl/

council (plural councils)

1. A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
2. Discussion or deliberation.
   • 1715, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book IV”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: Printed by W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott between the Temple-Gates, OCLC 670734254 ↗:

     O great in action and in council wise.

• conciliate
• reconcile

• French: conseil
• German: Rat
• Italian: consiglio
• Portuguese: conselho
• Russian: сове́т
• Spanish: concejo

1. Surname
2. A small city/county seat in Adams County, Idaho.