Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of councilor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See councilor.
Wiktionary
- n. A member of a council.
- n. UK A representative elected to a local authority.
- n. politics city councillor, a member of a city council.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a member of a council
Etymologies
- Alteration of counsellor, by assimilation with council. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I do know what my councillor is doing, but I am clueless as to who is best choice for school board and I think positions to the school board should be appointed and not voted on.”
“- Whom is subordinate the responsibility for rehabilitation (e.g. a certain councillor)?”
“If you look at the tweets it's very very clear that the councillor is tweeting private statements.”
The Guardian: Councillor cleared over 'stupid' scientology tweet
“One of the joys of being a rural county councillor is online access to the 1880 and 1905 OS maps which can be overlaid on the current OS map; thus arguments over should it be ‘the Strand’ or ‘Strand’ have been resolved for a parish council, and old street names have been resurrected and given to new developments on the site where they ran.”
“Anon - being a councillor is probably the most enjoyable job I have ever done.”
“My experience, as both a resident and as a ward councillor, is that the Council's officers are being polite, diligent and understanding in their conversations with residents.”
“One might also begin to know who your local councillor is and, with the return of the Mayor, have a real local leader with whom voters might actually identify.”
“If a councillor is bent, then let the criminal law remove him.”
“If a councillor is offensive or rude, then that's tough luck and a matter for the electorate to decide if they want that person representing them.”
“This was in the ousting of the long term councillor Simon Wheale to make way for ex-councillor Mark Clayton who had been tonked in the eponymous Clayton Ward in the all out in 2004.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘councillor’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
cadre, bribery, bashing, backhander, clash, crony, coercion, coterie, chicanery, baksheesh, acolyte, backlash and 256 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - politics
absolute majority, absolute monarchy, abstentionism, access to informa..., acquisition of arms, action brought be..., action for annulment, action to establi..., ad hoc committee, adjournment, adjournment motion, administration and 965 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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MyList
peter out, fraying, jump on the bandw..., indignation, eclectic, hung up, salutary, hoary, warped, glaring, blue-collar, concomitant and 105 more...
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RocknRolla (2008)
Words from 2008 'RocknRolla' film.
drip, consent, foothold, bricks and mortar, mortar, councillor, let down, wand, clean out, leg-up, hasty, erect and 115 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for councillor.
Prolagus I know where the summer goes
If you're scraping a pot, and your head is hot
Put your head down, put your thumbs up girl
With the smell of hot desk
And the glitter of your step
He was right, he's the upcoming guru of the city
No one told the city councillors.
(I know where the summer goes, by Belle and Sebastian) Nov 13, 2008