Noun

(en noun)

A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}

Discussion or deliberation.

* Milton

Satan void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.

* Alexander Pope

O great in action and in council wise.

Noun

(uncountable) The state of being allied.

matrimonial alliances'''; an '''alliance between church and state, or between two countries

(countable) The act of allying or uniting.

(countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

(countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.

* C. J. Smith

the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel

* Mansel

the alliance between logic and metaphysics

(with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.

(Udall)