meeting vs council

meeting and council both are nouns.

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

As nouns, council is a hyponym of meeting; that is, council is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than meeting:

meeting (noun)	council (noun)
the social act of assembling for some common purpose	a meeting of people for consultation
the act of joining together as one	a body serving in an administrative capacity
a casual or unexpected convergence	(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 formally arranged gathering
a small informal social gathering
a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)