An advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown).

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