Party

Word PARTY
Character 5
Hyphenation par ty
Pronunciations /ˈpɑ(ː)ɾi/

Definitions and meanings of "Party"

What do we mean by party?

A social gathering especially for pleasure or amusement. noun

A group of people who have gathered to participate in an activity. noun

A group of soldiers selected for a duty or mission. noun

An established political group organized to promote and support its principles and candidates for public office. noun

A person or group involved in an enterprise; a participant or accessory. noun

A person or entity that participates in a transaction, makes a contract, or is involved in a lawsuit as a litigant. noun

A subscriber to a telephone party line. noun

A person using a telephone. noun

A person. noun

Of, relating to, or participating in an established political organization. adjective

Suitable for use at a social gathering. adjective

Characteristic of a pleasurable social gathering. adjective

To celebrate or carouse at a party or similar gathering. intransitive verb

Same as parti. noun

A part; a portion; a division. noun

Part; side. noun

A company or number of persons ranged on one side, or united in opinion or design, in opposition to others in the community; those who favor or are united to promote certain views or opinions: as, the Liberal party; the Democratic party; the party of moral ideas. 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.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Party

The word "party" in example sentences

You have to tow the party line to get the nomination, even though that \'party line\ 'is so far out of the mainstream.' ❋ Unknown (2007)

Now, there you have at once the reason why we want the ballot; we want to be able to do something for the party in a substantial way, so that men may not tell us they have no room for us because we do nothing _for the party_. ❋ Matilda Joslyn Gage (1862)

Well, then, so far as there is no law, there is the reign of influence; there is party without of necessity _party_ action. ❋ John Henry Newman (1845)

The most moderate party, consisting of those who would sustain the throne, but limit its powers by a free constitution, retaining many of the institutions and customs which antiquity had rendered venerable, was called the _Girondist party_. ❋ Unknown (1841)

He will only hurt himself, and do no good to his party, for in _party_ the whole thing originates. ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

“If you held a party in 1980 and didn’t have this song, you didn’t have a party” vocalist Mary Davis proclaimed in her introduction to ❋ Unknown (2010)

This has badly affected the morale of our party workers, € Mr Ram Gopal Yadav, who heads the party€ ™ s parliamentary wing, said here on Saturday night. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And to find out if that person will be at a party, you can check the parties stream or perform a Twitter search (e.g. +party +Friday) in that person's stream. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Certainly, this cannot be said to be an accurate description of the position of men who believe in the rule of a nation of one hundred and eighty millions by a small party of two hundred thousand or less -- or even by an entire class representing not more than six per cent. of the population -- and Lenine and his friends, recognizing the fact, decided to change the name of their group to the _Communist party_, by which name they are now known in Russia. ❋ John Spargo (1921)

His Justice and Development party is socially conservative and has been called Islamist-leaning by Western journalists but that's a label party officials themselves haven't embraced. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Nobody or certain party is thrilled with the economy, unemployment rate, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Going to a party, then, means you agree to be taken on your personal merits, that you will rely neither on pulling rank nor on being obsequious—that you come in friendship, and that you take part, where the sense of the word party is exactly that: a becoming party to something, a joining in in such a way that you leave any pretensions to or concerns about status at the door. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)

We -- we left it in our car the night of the label party right after the award show and came back out, and the car had been gone, someone said for like 15 minutes. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Tonight, meet someone from New York for whom the label party pro is a badge of honor. ❋ Unknown (2000)

When in difficulties the Emperor may consult individually some of his near relatives, but there is no coherent group to which the term party could properly be applied. ❋ Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1880)

I think they are in error, at least in the Canadian sense of the term party; and that this error has been at the bottom of most of our civil discords and executive abuses. ❋ Egerton Ryerson (1842)

For John Boehner: 1. Representative Boehner, as House minority leader, you often stood next to your Senate counterpart, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and pledged to oppose health care reform, the bailout of banks and the stimulus bills, thus earning the moniker "party of No" for the GOP. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In certain parts of the Midwestern United States, locals prefer to use the term party store or corner store. ❋ Jessica Dolcourt (2010)

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