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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
councilman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
city
▪ But they interviewed only one candidate -- former Tucson city councilman and recently retired state employee Hector Morales.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the councilman praised the Chargers and Qualcomm for acting to lift the blackout.
▪ But they interviewed only one candidate -- former Tucson city councilman and recently retired state employee Hector Morales.
▪ City councilmen are shocked to find this out.
▪ He served as a councilman for six years and mayor for eight years.
▪ Mainly through their involvement in politics, Big Mike and Catherine and the councilman all go way back.
▪ One councilman said Clark was never able to embrace economic development.
▪ The new councilman grew up in Milwaukee, the seventh of 13 children and the first boy.
▪ The sewer was defeated but the councilman got in.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Councilman

Councilman \Coun"cil*man\ (koun"s[i^]l*man), n.; pl. Councilmen (koun"s[i^]l*men). A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.

Wiktionary
councilman

n. A male member of a council, especially a city council; now often replaced by gender-neutral councilor (British, councillor).

WordNet
councilman

n. a man who is a council member

Usage examples of "councilman".

The other four councilmen also appeared and clustered around Admi for what appeared to be an urgent conversation.

Councilman, Alani and I would both be more than pleased to keep you company tonight.

While inimical stares from the councilmen sharpened around the table, and the Mayor of Isaer whispered something to a servant that brought guardsmen in full mail to block the doorway, Lord Diegan groped to draw the hidden dagger in his sleeve.

From his place by the emptied command table, Lord Diegan waited for the officers, petitioners, and city councilmen who clustered in knots in the corners to clear themselves from the room.

The councilman, he did say this, and even our herbwoman and our Spirit Talker, they do believe him now.

Another man, a city councilman named Muhammad Alagbe, handed out hand phasers to each of the volunteers who would be stationed along the riverbank, with members of the New Ibadan civic patrol, to fire at any mats of growth on the opposite bank in order to prevent the greenery from spreading across the water.

But they might just as easily be city councilmen or postgrad students in the straight world.

The physician arose and presented a thick pile of slates to the first, Councilman at the table.

He was the councilman from Redhook in the North End and was regarded as a serious candidate to become Mayor when Augie Bolcarro finally died.

It listed each pontiff and councilman ever to serve the Apocrypha, and contained the Council bylaws as well.

Have you heard the newscasts of the past few hours concerning Councilman Salgath?

We had one flaming scuzzbucket of a city councilman, a few years ago, wanted to cut costs by getting rid of what he called freeloaders.

They should be investigating Continental Collectors, and Tribal Councilman Jimmy Chester, and those people in the Bureau of Land Management, and the whole conspiracy to make the Checkerboard Reservation a national garbage pit.

Hill, Ballem, and Brooking Davis had been sworn in as the new city councilmen.

Bawling for passage, he carried the ailing Councilman to his sleeping room.