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

(en noun)

The state of being brothers or a brother.

An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.

The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.

Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.

A brotherhood of venerable trees. - .