councillor

See also: counsellor and counselor

English

Alternative forms

• councilor (US), (Canadian spelling) (alternate), (UK spelling) (uncommon)
• councilour (obsolete, rare)
• councillour (obsolete)

Etymology

Alteration of counsellor, by assimilation with council.

Noun

councillor (plural councillors) (British spelling, Canadian spelling) (primary)

1. A member of a council.
2. In particular, a representative elected to a local authority, such as a city council: a city councillor

Synonyms

• councilmember
• (gendered terms) councilman, councilwoman

Derived terms

• cllr (abbreviation)
• parish councillor
• privy councillor
• town councillor
• works councillor

 

Related terms

• Privy Councillor

Translations

member of a city council

• Basque: zinegotzi sg, erregidore sg (formal)
• Bulgarian: съветник (bg) m (sǎvetnik)
• Catalan: regidor (ca) m, regidora (ca) f, edil m or f (formal)
• Czech: radní (cs) m or f
• Finnish: valtuutettu (fi); (in a city council) kaupunginvaltuutettu (fi)
• French: conseiller (fr) m, conseillère (fr) f, French: conseiller municipal (fr) m
• Galician: concelleiro m, concelleira f, conselleiro (gl) m, conselleira f
• Malagasy: mpanolotsaina
• Maori: kaikaunihera, mema kaunihera
• Portuguese: vereador (pt) m, vereadora f, conselheiro (pt) m, conselheira (pt) f
• Russian: чле́н сове́та m (člén sovéta), сове́тник (ru) m (sovétnik)
• Spanish: concejal (es) m or f, regidor (es) m (Catalan-speaking bilingual areas mostly), regidora (es) f (Catalan-speaking bilingual areas mostly), edil (es) m or f (formal)
• Tagalog: konsehal
• Welsh: cynghorydd (cy) m