party

Meanings

Noun

• A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
• A person.
• A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
• A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
• A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
• A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
• A part or division.

Verb

• To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
• To take recreational drugs.
• To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
• To form a party (with).

Adjective

• Of a fence or wall: shared by two properties and serving to divide them.
• Divided; in part.
• Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.

Related

Similar words

• bash, do, rave

Narrower meaning words

• afterparty
• agrarian party
• beach party
• bachelor party
• bachelorette party
• block party
• boarding party
• bucks' party
• charter party
• cocktail party
• coming-out party
• en
• concert party
• Conservative party
• costume party
• dinner party
• fatigue party
• garden party
• green party
• hen party
• house party
• Independence Party
• keg party
• LAN party
• landing party
• lawn party
• major party
• minor party
• mushroom party
• necktie party
• party of the first part
• party of the second part
• political party
• pool party
• prevailing party
• rescue party
• sausage party
• search party
• slumber party
• splinter party
• stag party
• surprise party
• tailgate party
• tea party
• third party
• toga party
• Tupperware party
• war party
• wedding party
• working party
• work party

Origin

• From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Medieval Latin partīta, from Latin partīta, feminine of partītus, past participle of partīrī; see part. partita.
• From Middle English party, from Old French parti, from Latin partītus ("parted"), past participle of partiri. More at part.