Definition of "council"

council

/ˈkaʊn.səl/

noun
plural councils
1. A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
  Quotations
  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
2. Discussion or deliberation.
  Quotations
  Satan […] void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night;
  2008 , John Milton, chapter 6, in W. Kerrigan, J. Rumrich, S. Fallon, editors, Paradise Lost (Modern Library Classics) (poetry), Random House Publishing Group, page 212, lines 414–416
  O great in action and in council wise.
  1715–1720, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book IV”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […]