All council synonyms

noun council

• gathering — a drawing together; contraction.
• gang — a group or band: A gang of boys gathered around the winning pitcher.
• committee — A committee is a group of people who meet to make decisions or plans for a larger group or organization that they represent.
• ring — a male given name.
• conference — A conference is a meeting, often lasting a few days, which is organized on a particular subject or to bring together people who have a common interest.
• confab — A confab is an informal, private conversation.
• synod — an assembly of ecclesiastics or other church delegates, convoked pursuant to the law of the church, for the discussion and decision of ecclesiastical affairs; ecclesiastical council.
• board — A board is a flat, thin, rectangular piece of wood or plastic which is used for a particular purpose.
• convention — A convention is a way of behaving that is considered to be correct or polite by most people in a society.
• body — Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
• parliament — (usually initial capital letter) the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons.
• assembly — An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
• conclave — A conclave is a meeting at which the discussions are kept secret. The meeting which is held to elect a new Pope is called a conclave.
• congress — Congress is the elected group of politicians that is responsible for making the law in the United States. It consists of two parts: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
• convocation — A convocation is a meeting or ceremony attended by a large number of people.
• powwow — a large gathering organized by North American Indians for socializing, dancing, singing, and celebrating their culture.
• diet — the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.
• cabinet — A cabinet is a cupboard used for storing things such as medicine or alcoholic drinks or for displaying decorative things in.
• congregation — The people who are attending a church service or who regularly attend a church service are referred to as the congregation.
• mob — Digital Technology. (in a video game) a hostile nonplayer character that the player may target and fight.
• outfit — an assemblage of articles that equip a person for a particular task, role, trade, etc.: an explorer's outfit.
• panel — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
• clan — A clan is a group which consists of families that are related to each other.
• huddle — to gather or crowd together in a close mass.
• ministry — the service, functions, or profession of a minister of religion.
• chamber — A chamber is a large room, especially one that is used for formal meetings.
• meet — greatest lower bound
• directorate — the office of a director.
• senate — an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
• groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
• kitchen cabinet — a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.
• governing body — board, regulatory authority
• official family — the executives or officials chiefly responsible for the operation of an organization or government.
• meeting — an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races: a track meet.
• association — An association is an official group of people who have the same job, aim, or interest.