Usually means: Governing body for decision-making authority.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. council: Merriam-Webster
  2. council: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. council: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. council, the council: Collins English Dictionary
  5. council: Vocabulary.com
  6. COuncil, Council, Council, council: Wordnik
  7. council: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Council, council: Wiktionary
  9. council: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. council: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. council: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Council, council: Dictionary.com
  13. council: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. council: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Council (Boy Scouts), Council (disambiguation), Council, The Council (drug syndicate), The Council (video game), The Council: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Council: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. council: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. council: Rhymezone
  19. council: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. council: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. council: FreeDictionary.org
  22. council: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. council: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. council: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. council: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. council: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Council (Catholicism), Council (government), council: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Council (Catholicism), Council (government): Encyclopedia
  2. council: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. council: Sound Alike Words

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. council: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Council: Easton Bible
  2. Council: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Council, The Council: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Council)

noun:  A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
noun:  (UK, metonymically) A local authority.
noun:  Discussion or deliberation.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A small city, the county seat of Adams County, Idaho, United States.

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