Council vs Legislature - What's the difference?
council | legislature | Related terms |
A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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* Milton
* Alexander Pope
A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
(Canada) A legislative building.
Council is a related term of legislature.
As nouns the difference between council and legislature
is that council is a committee that leads or governs (eg city council, student council) while legislature is legislature.council
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- Satan void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.
- O great in action and in council wise.
