English
Etymology
From city + council.
Noun
city council (plural city councils)
- A governing body of people elected to oversee management of a city and represent the interests of residents.
- Hypernym: council (elliptically synonymous in context)
- Near-synonyms: town council, municipal council, common council, select council, consulate (obsolete), capitoulate (historical, Toulouse)
Derived terms
- city councillor, city councilor
- city councilman, city councilwoman
Translations
town/city governing body
- Catalan: ajuntament (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 市政會 / 市政会 (shìzhènghuì), 市政廳 / 市政厅 (zh) (shìzhèngtīng)
- Czech: městská rada f
- Danish: byråd (da) n (chartered towns, legally obsolete term), kommunalbestyrelse (da) c (municipalities, contemporary legal term)
- Dutch: gemeenteraad (nl) m
- Finnish: kaupunginvaltuusto (fi)
- French: conseil municipal (fr) m
- Galician: concello (gl) m
- German: Stadtrat (de) m
- Indonesian: dewan kota
- Italian: consiglio municipale m
- Japanese: (city) 市議会 (ja) (しぎかい, shigikai), (town) 町議会 (ja) (ちょうぎかい, chōgikai)
- Malay: majlis bandaraya
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bystyre n
- Nynorsk: bystyre n
- Polish: rada miejska f
- Portuguese: conselho municipal m
- Romanian: consiliu local n, (historical) sfat orășenesc m, (historical) sfat popular (ro) m
- Russian: городско́й сове́т m (gorodskój sovét), горсове́т (ru) m (gorsovét), (outside Russia) муниципа́льный сове́т m (municipálʹnyj sovét)
- Spanish: ayuntamiento (es) m (Spain), concejo (es) m
- Tagalog: sangguniang panlungsod (of cities), sangguniang bayan (of towns or municipalities)
- Ukrainian: міська́ ра́да f (misʹká ráda), міськра́да f (misʹkráda)
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