Roget's Thesaurus#696. CouncilNounscouncil, committee, subcommittee, comitia [Lat.], court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff. senate, senatus [Lat.], parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath [G.], rigsdag, cortes [Sp.], storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim; classis; Amphictyonic council; duma [Rus.], house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag, volksraad [G.], witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal etc. (tribunal) 966; board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board. audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber. cabinet council, privy council; cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general. [formal gathering of members of a council: script] assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house; quorum; council fire [U.S.], powwow [U.S.], primary [U.S.]. meeting, assemblage etc. 72. [person who is member of a council] member; senator; member of parliament, M.P.; councilor, selectman, representative of the people; assemblyman, congressman; councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder. Verbsassemble, gather together, meet (assemblage) 72; confer, caucus, hold council; huddle [Coll.]. Adjectivessenatorial, curule; congressional, parliamentary; legislative, law-making; regulatory; deliberative. |