Councillor

Definition: Councillor

Councillor

Noun

1. A member of a council.

Date "councillor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Councillor

Synonym: council member (n). (additional references)

A councillor is a member of a council (such as a city council), particularly in the U.K and its former colonies.

It is not the same as a counselor, who provides counsel.

Crosswords: Councillor

English words defined with "councillor": Keeper of the privy seal. (references)

Specialty definitions using "councillor": Moran's Collar, Mouse Tower. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Becoming a councillor : a guide for the new council member (reference) Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (reference) In the days of the councillor (reference) The Councillor (reference) The Privy Councillor [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It is like a contractor become a councillor of state.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Councillor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.98% of the time. "Councillor" is used about 2,483 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	82.98%	2,061	4,211
Noun (proper)	17.02%	423	13,476
Total	100.00%	2,483	N/A

Expressions using "councillor": country councillor ♦ town councillor. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "councillor": councillor-officer.
	Ending with "councillor": ex-councillor, officer-councillor.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "councillor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		këshilltar (adviser, counsellor, counselor, mentor, monitor), anëtar këshilli. (various references)

Arabic		‏مستشار (adviser, chancellor, consultant, council, counselor, mentor), ‏عضو مجلس. (various references)

Bulgarian		съветник (adviser, advisor, aide, counsellor, doctor, guide, monitor), член на съвет. (various references)

Chinese		�"员 (Commissioner). (various references)

Czech		radní (alderman, elder), rada (advice, board, council, hint, soviet, suggestion, tip). (various references)

Finnish		neuvosmies, neuvos. (various references)

French		conseiller (consultant, counsel, counsellor), membre du conseil. (various references)

German		Ratsmitglied (councilor). (various references)

Greek		σύμβουλοσ (adviser, advisor, consultant, consulter, counsellor, counselor, counsilor, director). (various references)

Hebrew		חבר מועצ�". (various references)

Hungarian		tanácstag (alderman, aldermen, councilor, syndic), tanácsos (advisable, councilor, senator). (various references)

Italian		consigliere (advice, adviser, consultant, council, councilor, counsellor, counselor, mentor, monitor). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		議士 (legislator), 参議 (participation in government), 参事官 , 参事 (secretary). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぎし (adopted child, artificial limb, artificial tooth, engineer, falsified history, feigning death, legislator, loyal retainer, sister-in-law, technician), さ�"ぎ (divining rods, participation in government, sticks used for calculations), さ�"じか�", さ�"じ (3 o'clock snack, childbirth, compliment, cubic, disaster, eulogy, horrible accident, newborn baby, praise, secretary, silkworm, three times). (various references)

Korean		참사관. (various references)

Manx		coonseilagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ouncillorcay

Portuguese		conselheiro (adviser, counsellor, counselor, mentor). (various references)

Romanian		consilier (adviser, consultant, counsellor), sfetnic (adviser). (various references)

Russian		советник (advice councilor, adviser, compliance officer, counsellor, counselor), член совета (councilman). (various references)

Scottish		comhairleach (counsellor). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		član veća. (various references)

Spanish		consejero (adviser, consultant, councilor, counsellor, counselor), concejal (alderman, selectman, town council), eclesiasta. (various references)

Swedish		stadsfullmäktig (counciller), rådsmedlem (counciller), rådsherre, råd (advice, council, counsel, expedient, hint, means, Rede, remedy). (various references)

Thai		สมาชิกส� า (councilor). (various references)

Turkish		meclis üyesi (assembly man, congressman, councilor), kurul üyesi (councilor). (various references)

Ukrainian		радник (adviser, advisor, counsellor, counselor, monitor), член ради. (various references)

Vietnamese		hội viên hội đ�"ng. (various references)

Welsh		cynghorwr (counsellor, exhorter). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	decurio. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "councillor": councillors, councillorship, councillorships. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-i-l-l-n-o-o-r-u"
	-1 letter: councilor.
	-2 letters: unicolor.
	-3 letters: colonic, couloir, council, criollo, cullion, orcinol.
	-4 letters: clonic, coloni, colour, concur, loculi, uncoil, uncool, unroll.
	-5 letters: clour, colic, colin, colon, color, conic, cornu, croci, croon, curio, incur, nicol, occur, oculi, orcin, runic.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-i-l-l-n-o-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: councillors.
	+4 letters: councillorship.
	+5 letters: councillorships, unchronological.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
councillor matt palmer	7
city councillor toronto	6
councillor	3
city councillor ottawa	3
city councillor	2
councillor toronto	2
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Councillor

Definition: Councillor

Councillor

Noun

Synonym: Councillor

Specialty Definition: Councillor

Crosswords: Councillor

Commercial Usage: Councillor

Books

Use in Literature: Councillor

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Usage Frequency: Councillor

Expressions: Councillor

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Councillor

councillor matt palmer

city councillor toronto

councillor

city councillor ottawa

city councillor

councillor toronto

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