"councillor" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: councillors [plural]
Etymology: Alteration of counsellor, by assimilation with council. Etymology templates: {{m|en|counsellor}} counsellor, {{m|en|council}} council Head templates: {{en-noun}} councillor (plural councillors)
  1. A member of a council. Tags: Canada, UK
    Sense id: en-councillor-en-noun-CkfOktEO
  2. In particular, a representative elected to a local authority, such as a city council: a city councillor Tags: Canada, UK Categories (topical): People Synonyms (gendered terms): councilman Translations (member of a city council): zinegotzi [singular] (Basque), erregidore [formal, singular] (Basque), съветник (sǎvetnik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), regidor [masculine] (Catalan), regidora [feminine] (Catalan), edil [feminine, formal, masculine] (Catalan), radní [feminine, masculine] (Czech), valtuutettu (Finnish), kaupunginvaltuutettu (note: in a city council) (Finnish), conseiller [masculine] (French), conseillère [feminine] (French), conseiller municipal [French, masculine] (French), concelleiro [masculine] (Galician), concelleira [feminine] (Galician), conselleiro [masculine] (Galician), conselleira [feminine] (Galician), mpanolotsaina (Malagasy), kaikaunihera (Maori), mema kaunihera (Maori), vereador [masculine] (Portuguese), vereadora [feminine] (Portuguese), conselheiro [masculine] (Portuguese), conselheira [feminine] (Portuguese), чле́н сове́та (člén sovéta) [masculine] (Russian), сове́тник (sovétnik) [masculine] (Russian), concejal [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), regidor [Catalan-speaking-bilingual-areas-mostly, masculine] (Spanish), regidora [Catalan-speaking-bilingual-areas-mostly, feminine] (Spanish), edil [feminine, formal, masculine] (Spanish), konsehal (Tagalog), cynghorydd [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-councillor-en-noun-FvjeHVpK Disambiguation of People: 0 100 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 99 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 98 Disambiguation of 'gendered terms': 7 93 Disambiguation of 'member of a city council': 19 81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: councilmember, councilwoman, councilor [US], councilour [obsolete, rare], councillour [obsolete] Derived forms: cllr [abbreviation], parish councillor, privy councillor, town councillor, works councillor Related terms: Privy Councillor

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.