councilとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 counseil (“meeting, conference, commune”), from Old French conseil (“advice, deliberation, thought”), from Latin cōnsilium (“plan, intention, design, purpose”), from cōnsulō (“consult, seek counsel from, take counsel from, deliberate, reflect”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“take, grab”).

発音

• enPR: kounʹ-səl, IPA: /ˈkaʊn.səl/
• (Northumbria) IPA: /ˈkuːn.səl/
• 韻: -aʊnsəl
• Homophone: counsel

名詞

council (plural councils)

1. A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2024 November 2, Maryse Zeidler, “Hereditary chiefs slam Vancouver Island city council for remarks on restoring Indigenous place names”, in CBC News‎:

     The comments were made at a council meeting last month, during which one councillor questioned whether changing the names would be pushing reconciliation efforts along too quickly. […] At a city council meeting on Oct. 8, Campbell River councillors discussed a letter sent by the B.C. Geographical Names Office inviting comments on the name changes.

   1. (UK, metonymic) A local authority.
2. Discussion or deliberation.
   • 2008 [1667], John Milton, chapter 6, in W. Kerrigan, J. Rumrich, S. Fallon, editors, Paradise Lost (Modern Library Classics) (poetry), Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 212, lines 414–416:

     Satan […] void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night;

   • 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book IV”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

     O great in action and in council wise.

3. (Christianity) Short for church council

   Synonym: synod

   the First Council of Nicaea

下位語

派生語

関連する語

• conciliate
• reconcile

動詞

council (third-person singular simple present councils, present participle (US) counciling or (UK) councilling, simple past and past participle (US) counciled or (UK) councilled)

1. (transitive) To sit in council with; to hold discussions with.

参考

参照

• “council”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “council”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “council”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “council”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.