party

Meaning

Noun

1. A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
2. (slang) A person.
3. A person.
4. A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
5. A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
6. Political party; political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
7. A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
8. A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
9. A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
10. A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
11. A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
12. A small group of birds or mammals.
13. (obsolete) A part or division.

Verb

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

Adj

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

Hyphenated as

par‧ty

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɑː.ti/

Etymology

From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Medieval Latin partīta (“a part, party”), from Latin partīta, feminine of partītus, past participle of partior (“to divide”); see part. Doublet of partita.

Sentences

That party was amazing .

He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement .

His candidacy was supported by the Islamic Republican party and Bangladesh Justice Party .

His widow , Sahana Pradhan , took over the leadership of the party .

He voiced Link Hogthrob in the " Muppet RaceMania" and " Muppet Party Cruise " video games .