privy council

1. 1.

   an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown)

   Broadercouncil

   Narrowerdivan

   United Kingdom

Questions about privy council

What does privy council mean?

privy council means "an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown)".

Is privy council a common word?

privy council is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.