The room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur.

Roget 588: conversation, interlocution; collocution^†, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.    causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk^†, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement^†; tripotage^†, cackle, prittle-prattle^†, cancan, on dit [Fr.]; talk of the town, talk of the village.    conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione [It]; congress etc. (council) 696; powwow [U.S.].    hall of audience, durbar^†.    palaver, debate, logomachy^†, war of words.    gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer etc. (loquacity) 584; interlocutor etc. (spokesman) 582; conversationist^†, dialogist^†.    the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope]; mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 696: council, committee, subcommittee, comitia [Lat.], court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff.    senate, senatus [Lat.], parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath [G.], rigsdag, cortes [Sp.], storthing^†, witenagemote^†, junta, divan, musnud^†, sanhedrim; classis^†; Amphictyonic council^†; duma [Rus.], house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag^†, volksraad [G.], witan^†, caput^†, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal etc. (tribunal) 966; board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board.    audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber.    cabinet council, privy council; cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general.    [formal gathering of members of a council: script] assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar^†, house; quorum; council fire [U.S.], powwow [U.S.], primary [U.S.].    meeting, assemblage etc. 72.    [person who is member of a council] member; senator; member of parliament, M.   P.; councilor, representative of the people; assemblyman, congressman; councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder.    ... show more

Roget 966: tribunal, court, board, bench, judicatory^†; court of justice, court of law, court of arbitration, administrative court; inquisition; guild.    justice seat; judgment seat, mercy seat; woolsack^†; bar of justice; dock; forum, hustings, bureau, drumhead; jury box, witness box.    senate house, town hall, theater; House of Commons, House of Lords; statehouse [U.S.], townhouse.    assize, eyre; wardmote^†, burghmote^†; barmote^†; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer [Law], court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court^†, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet [Fr.], court-baron, court of pie poudre [Fr.], court of common council; board of green cloth.    court martial; drumhead court martial; durbar^†, divan; Areopagus^†; Irota.    ... show more