noun. A social gathering especially for pleasure or amusement.

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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.

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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.

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noun. A subscriber to a telephone party line.

noun. A person using a telephone.

noun. A person.

adjective. 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.

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

noun. 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. Hence Side; cause.

noun. A company or band of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose; especially, a select company invited to be present and participate in some form of amusement or entertainment: as, a pleasure-party; a dinner-party; a theater-party.

noun. A detached part of a larger body or company; specifically (military), a detachment or small number of troops sent on a special service, as to intercept an enemy's convoy,to reconnoiter, to seek forage.

noun. In law: One of the lit-igants in a legal proceeding; a plaintiff or de-fendant in a suit: sometimes used collectively to include all the persons named on one side.

noun. One expressly concerned or interested in an affair: as, a party to a contract or an agreement; the party of the first part.

noun. One who is privy to a transaction or affair, or connected with it in any way; one who is more or less of an accomplice or accessory.

noun. A person; a particular person, as distinct from and opposed to any other; a person under special consideration; a person in general; an individual: as, an old party of my acquaintance.

noun. Compact; treaty.

noun. Synonyms Combination, Faction, etc. (see cabal), league, set, clique, alliance, coalition.

Partial; manifesting partiality.

Of or pertaining to a faction or party; partizan: as, party lines; party issues.

Divided; in part.

Specifically In heraldry, divided into parts, usually equal: said of the field, especially when the division is in the direction of one of the ordinaries.

adverb. Partly.

adjective. Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.

adjective. Partial; favoring one party; partisan.

adjective. See under Charter.

noun. A part or portion.

noun. 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.

noun. A part of a larger body of company; a detachment

noun. A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; ; also, the entertainment itself.

noun. One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator

noun. The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.

noun. Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.

noun. Cause; side; interest.

noun. A person.

noun. a jury composed of different parties, as one which is half natives and half foreigners.

noun. a partisan.

noun. a factious and unreasonable temper, not uncommonly shown by party men.

noun. a joint verdict.