council vs meeting

council and meeting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
council	Yes	No	No	No
meeting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, meeting is a hypernym of council; that is, meeting is a word with a broader meaning than council:

Other hypernyms of council include group meeting.

council (noun)	meeting (noun)
a meeting of people for consultation	the social act of assembling for some common purpose
a body serving in an administrative capacity	the act of joining together as one
(Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine	a casual or unexpected convergence
	a formally arranged gathering
	a small informal social gathering
	a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)