Party
Definition of Party
Par´ty Pronunciation: pär´tŷ | n. | 1. | A part or portion. | | 2. | A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy. | | 3. | (Mil.) A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; | | 4. | A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party. | | 5. | One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract. | | 6. | The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant. | | 7. | Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another. | | 8. | Cause; side; interest. | | 9. | A person; as, he is a queer party. | | a. | 1. | (Her.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale. | | 2. | Partial; favoring one party; partisan.I will be true judge, and not party. - Chaucer. | | adv. | 1. | Partly. |
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Adamite, American Party, Anti-Monopoly Party, Bull Moose Party, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Constitutional Union Party, Democratic Party, Democratic-Republican Party, Farmer-Labor Party, Federalist Party, Free Soil Party, Greenback Party, Kaffeeklatsch, Know-Nothing Party, Labour Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Republican Party, Liberty Party, Mardi Gras, National Republican Party, Populist Party, Progressive Party, Prohibition Party, Republican Party, Saturnalia, Socialist Labor Party, Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Tammany Hall, Tory Party, Whig Party, a party to, accessory, accomplice, accusant, accuser, actor, adherents, advocate, affiliation, age group, aid, allegator, alliance, ally, appellant, approver, assemblee, assembly, assignation, associate, at home, bacchanal, bacchanalia, backer, ball, band, banquet, bash, battalion, beano, being, bevy, bipartisan, biparty, bloc, blowout, body, branch, brawl, breakaway group, brigade, bunch, bust, cabal, cadre, caller, calling party, camp, carnival, carousal, carouse, cast, cat, caucus, celebration, certifier, champion, chap, character, church, city hall, claimant, clique, club, cluster, coalition, cocktail party, coffee klatch, cohort, colloquium, combine, commission, committee, communion, community, complainant, complement, conclave, concourse, confederacy, confederate, confederation, confirmer, congregation, congress, contingent, contributor, conventicle, convention, convocation, copartner, corps, cosignatory, cosigner, costume party, cotenant, coterie, council, covey, creature, crew, customer, dance, date, debauch, defendant, defender, delator, denomination, denominational, detachment, detail, diet, dinner, dinner party, division, do, donation party, duck, earthling, eisteddfod, endorser, entertainment, ethnic group, exponent, faction, factional, fair, feast, federation, fellow, fellowship, festival, festive occasion, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, fleet, forgathering, forum, frolic, function, gala, gala affair, gala day, gang, garden party, get-together, great doings, groundling, group, grouping, groupment, guarantor, guy, hand, head, helper, hen party, high jinks, homo, hop, house party, house-raising, housewarming, human, human being, impeacher, impugner, in-group, indictor, individual, informer, insurer, interest, interest group, interested, jamboree, joker, junta, junto, kermis, lawn party, league, levee, libelant, life, litigant, litigationist, litigator, living soul, machine, major party, man, mask, masque, masquerade, masquerade party, meet, meeting, minor party, minority group, mob, mortal, movement, multiple party system, nose, notary, notary public, offshoot, one, one-party system, opposition party, order, organization, orgy, out-group, outfit, pack, panel, partaker, partial, participant, participator, parties litigant, partisan, partner, party in power, peer group, person, personage, personality, persuasion, petitioner, phalanx, phoner, picnic, plaintiff, platoon, plenum, political machine, political party, posse, pressure group, prom, promoter, proponent, prosecutor, quorum, rally, ratifier, rave, reception, regiment, religious order, rendezvous, ring, romp, salon, saturnalia, schism, school, seance, seconder, sect, sectarian, sectarism, sectary, sectional, segment, session, set, shareholder, sharer, shindig, shindy, shower, side, signatory, signer, silent majority, single, sit-in, sitting, smoker, social gathering, society, soiree, somebody, someone, soul, splinter, splinter group, splinter party, spree, squad, stable, stag, stag party, string, subscriber, suitor, supporter, surprise party, symposium, synod, team, telephoner, tellurian, terran, the prosecution, third party, tribe, troop, troupe, turnout, two-party system, underwriter, union, unit, upholder, variety, version, vocal minority, waygoose, wayzgoose, wing, wingding, witness, worldling
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