party
Meanings
noun
- A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract.
- A person; an individual.
- With to: someone who takes part in an action or affair; an accessory.
- A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest, etc., or united in maintaining a cause, policy, or opinion in opposition to others; a faction.
- A political group considered as a formal whole, usually organized on a national basis, which contests elections and aims to form or take part in a government; a political party.
- The Communist Party, especially as the sole political party of a communist state.
- The feeling of solidarity with and support for one's political party; partisanship, especially in political matters.
- Active player characters organized into a single group.
- A group of characters controlled by the player.
- A detachment of troops selected for a particular service or duty.
- A group of people gathered together, especially temporarily, for a specific purpose such as travel or sport.
- A social gathering, usually of invited guests, which typically involves eating, drinking, and entertainment and often held to celebrate a particular occasion.
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).
adv
- Partly.
adj
- Divided; in part.
- Divided into parts of different tinctures, usually equal, and especially following the lines of one of the ordinaries.
- Shared by two properties and serving to divide them.
- Favoring one party; partisan.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Old French partie (“side, part; portion, share; separation, division”, literally “that which is divided”), noun use of feminine of past participle of Old French partir (“to divide, separate”), from Latin partire (“to share, part, distribute, divide”), from pars (“a part, piece, a share”); see also part. First attested in c. 1300. Doublet of partita. The sense of communist party of a communist state derives Russian партия (partija), short for Коммунистическая партия (Kommunističeskaja partija). By surface analysis, part + -y (“noun suffix”).
Synonyms
Related words
Derived words
Translations
Previous
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.