party
Meaning
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- A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
- (slang) A person.
- A person.
- A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
- A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
- Political party; 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 group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
- A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
- A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
- A small group of birds or mammals.
- (obsolete) A part or division.
Synonyms
social gathering
political group
drinking bout
social evening
social function
those present
evening party
group of people
rave-up
ship’s company
gathering of people
invitation to a party
tidrick
jubilee pattern
boum
Frequency
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.
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