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PRONUNCIATION OF GREAT COUNCIL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GREAT COUNCIL

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Great council is a noun.
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WHAT DOES GREAT COUNCIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

great council

Great Council of Venice

The Great Council of Venice or Major Council, originally the Consilium Sapientis was a political organ of the Republic of Venice between 1172 and 1797 and met in a special large hall of the Palazzo Ducale. Participation in the Great Council was established on hereditary right, exclusive to the patrician families enrolled in the Golden Book of the Venetian nobility. The Great Council had the power to create laws and elected the Council of Ten.

Definition of great council in the English dictionary

The definition of great council in the dictionary is an assembly of the great nobles and prelates to advise the king.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE GREAT COUNCIL

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Synonyms and antonyms of great council in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «great council» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GREAT COUNCIL

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Translator English - Chinese

大议会
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gran consejo
570 millions of speakers

English

great council
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

महान परिषद
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مجلس كبير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

большой совет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grande conselho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মহান কাউন্সিল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grand conseil
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Majlis besar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Grossen Rat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

偉大な協議会
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

훌륭한위원회
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dewan gedhe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hội đồng tuyệt vời
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பெரிய சபை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

महान परिषद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Büyük meclis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

grande concilio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

świetna rada
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Велика рада
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mare consiliu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεγάλη συμβούλιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

groot raad
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bra råd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stort råd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of great council

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GREAT COUNCIL»

The term «great council» is regularly used and occupies the 101.894 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GREAT COUNCIL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about great council

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREAT COUNCIL»

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History of Grants Under the Great Council for New England: A ...
THE subject assigned to me for a lecture to-night is, " History of Grants under the Great Council for New England." However important this may be in a historical point of view, so far as pleasurable interest is concerned it certainly has a rather ...
Samuel Foster Haven, 1869
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The Great Council at Rome. A Sermon, Etc
John BOND (Wesleyan Minister.) renouncing their heresy, and bowing to the Chair of the Pope. Ninety millions of Protestant Christians in the most powerful and enlightened States of the world will thus be unrepresented. Then, probably, a  ...
John BOND (Wesleyan Minister.), 1869
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Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485
At the beginning of Richard IPs minority in 1377, a great council of barons met periodically, and a small council of royal officials conducted daily business. Later that year, however, the great council appointed a continuing council. Though the  ...
Ronald H. Fritze, William Baxter Robison, 2002
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Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an ...
According to the traditional interpretation, the Venetian crisis was resolved with the passage in 1297 of a law known as the Serrata, or Closing, of the Great Council, a constitutional act that firmly established the city's republican regime on the ...
John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano, 2002
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The Pope, His Banker, and Venice
eignty rested with the Great Council; every Venetian noble above the age of twenty-five belonged to it, and at the time of the War of the League of Cambrai it had more than 2500 members, something like 10 percent of the male population of ...
Felix Gilbert, 1991
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England's Sacred Synods: A Constitutional History of the ...
Archbishop or Bishop. King. Reference. Nature of Assembly. A.D. 1070 Winchester . . Stigand, deprived William I. . . Cone. M. B. i. 322. Ibid.310. Att. Rights, 36. Great Council held concurrently with Legatine Synod under Hermanfred, bp. of Sion ...
James Wayland Joyce, 1855
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A Great and Wretched City
troduced the idea of the Council in Florence—conceived ofit as the institutional anchor, like the Great Council of Venice, of an aristocratically controlled oligarchic republic.80 The general consensus is that Machiavelli championed the Great ...
Mark Jurdjevic, 2014
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Orthodox Christianity at the Crossroad: A Great Council of ...
" It is interesting to note-as this collection of papers points out-that the children of Orthodox Christians living in America have come together as Americans, in order to remain Orthodox, through campus ministry programs that they are ...
George E. Matsoukas, 2009
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The General History Of England, Both Ecclesiastical and ...
A Great Council held at Westmister, wherein it is resolved to recover what that King had loft in France, p. 82. A Great Council M Westminster, where the Clergy persist- to give the King any Aid, p. IOO. A Great Council held at Salisbury, to which ...
James Tyrrell, 1704
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Of democracy. Mixed monarchy
The general frame of the Constitution in the other Cantons is that the legislative power and the appointment to the executive ofiices is vested in a Great Council, and exercised through the medium also of a Little Council; and that the Great ...
Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1846

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREAT COUNCIL»

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“Does the Council Matter to my Mother?”
It was asked in reference to the anticipated Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church planned for Pentecost 2016. It was offered ... «First Things, Jul 15»
2
Scott Savage sworn in as Ward I City Councilor
“We have a great council and I was worried that no one was going to show any interest for the seat and I wanted to help.” David McComb ran ... «Claremore Daily Progress, Jul 15»
3
Siciliano takes office as mayor of Ocean Township
“We were honored to have him, Mike was just a great council person,” he said. “He really epitomizes that volunteerism, the guy who wanted to ... «Greater Media Newspapers, Jul 15»
4
Group Filing Challenge: MP
“The Tui Cakau, Ratu Naiqama will be focusing primarily on the need to protect our group rights, things like the Great Council of Chiefs, our ... «Fiji Sun Online, Jul 15»
5
The Chappell House adventure: Part II
I recalled the legends of the "Great Council Oak" of Tallassee that Tecumseh spoke beneath and wondered if a tree could tell tales, what would ... «Montgomery Advertiser, Jul 15»
6
Washington: The Indian Prophecy (1770)
I am old, and soon shall be gathered to the great council-fire of my fathers, in the land of shades, but ere I go, there is something, bids me speak ... «Gilmer Mirror, Jul 15»
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The ecumenism of blood and Orthodox divisions
... June 2015), provides a brief outline on the preparations of the Great Council of autocephalous Orthodox Churches, the pan-Orthodox Synod. «AsiaNews.it, Jun 15»
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Was America established Christian at state level?
21, 1786, to pray for the new government: “That He would be pleased to bless the great Council of the United States of America and direct their ... «WND.com, Jun 15»
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John H. 'Jack' Hudson Jr., performed as Mummer
Jack was a member of the Great Council of Pennsylvania Improved Order of Red Men Keneshaw Tribe 524, The Mummers of Philadelphia in ... «Cape Gazette, Jun 15»
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Dallas Borough Council president remembered as 'great guy'
In addition to being “a great family guy and a great council president,” Carroll said his cousin was “a great story teller. Even if I had to hear them ... «Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, Jun 15»

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