councillor
USKOWN-suh-ler/ˈkaʊnsəlɚ/UKKOWN-suh-luh/ˈkaʊnsələ/
Pluralcouncillors
- 1A person elected to help run a town or city through its council.
Like someone the neighborhood picks to speak for them at meetings.
Our local councillor promised to fix the broken streetlights.
Residents asked the city councillors to lower the bus fares.
Similarrepresentative
- 2A person who is a member of a council.
Like one player on a team that makes choices together.
Each councillor on the student board voted to approve the trip.
The advisory councillors met to review the charity's spending.
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Origin
A changed form of "counsellor," made to match the word "council."