Council

Etymology
From, from , from concilium:

Noun

 * 1) A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council)
 * 2) discussion or deliberation

Thesaurus
Areopagus, Bund, Rochdale cooperative, advisory council, alliance, assemblage, assemblee, assembly, assignation, association, at home, audience, axis, ball, band, bargaining, bargaining session, bloc, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, body, brawl, cabinet, cadre, camarilla, caucus, coalition, college, colloquium, combination, combine, commission, committee, common market, conclave, concourse, confab, confabulation, confederacy, confederation, conference, confrontation, congregation, congress, consistory, consultation, consumer cooperative, conventicle, convention, convocation, cooperative, cooperative society, corps, council fire, council of state, council of war, credit union, curia, customs union, dance, date, diet, directorate, directors, directory, discussion, divan, economic community, eisteddfod, exchange of views, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, federation, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, free trade area, gang, gathering, get-together, governing board, governing body, group, grouping, high-level talk, housewarming, huddle, infrastructure, inquisition, interchange of views, interlocking directorate, interview, judicatory, judicature, judiciary, kitchen cabinet, league, levee, machine, management, meet, meeting, ministry, mob, negotiations, news conference, palaver, panel, parley, partnership, party, plenum, political machine, pourparler, powwow, press conference, privy council, prom, quorum, rally, reception, rendezvous, ring, seance, session, shadow cabinet, shindig, sit-in, sitting, society, soiree, steering committee, summit, summit conference, summitry, symposium, synod, the Inquisition, the administration, the brass, the executive, the people upstairs, top brass, tribunal, turnout, union

Translations

 * Albanian: këshill
 * Arabic: Majles/مجلس
 * Armenian:
 * Breton: kuzul
 * Bulgarian: съвет
 * Catalan: consell
 * Croatian: ,
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 * Esperanto: konsilio
 * Estonian: nõukogu
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hebrew: מועצה (mo'atza)
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: sfat and
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: ,
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 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,


 * : koncilio