Definitions for party

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party par·ty

Spelling: [pahr-tee]

IPA: /ˈpɑr ti/

Party is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in party (aprty).

Definitions for party

noun

1. a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.:
2. a group gathered for a special purpose or task:
3. a detachment, squad, or detail of troops assigned to perform some particular mission or service.
4. a group of persons with common purposes or opinions who support one side of a dispute, question, debate, etc.
5. a group of persons with common political opinions and purposes organized for gaining political influence and governmental control and for directing government policy:
6. the system of taking sides on public or political questions or the like.
7. attachment or devotion to one side or faction; partisanship:
8. Law. one of the litigants in a legal proceeding; a plaintiff or defendant in a suit. a signatory to a legal instrument. a person participating in or otherwise privy to a crime.
9. a person or group that participates in some action, affair, plan, etc.; participant:
10. the person under consideration; a specific individual:
11. a person or, usually, two or more persons together patronizing a restaurant, attending a social or cultural function, etc.:
12. a person participating in a telephone conversation:
13. any occasion or activity likened to a social party, as specified; session:
14. an advantageous or pleasurable situation or combination of circumstances of some duration and often of questionable character; period of content, license, exemption, etc.:

adjective

1. of or relating to a party or faction; partisan:
2. of or for a social gathering:
3. being shared by or pertaining to two or more persons or things.
4. Heraldry. (of an escutcheon) having the field divided into a number of parts, usually two; parted.

verb (used without object)

1. to go to or give parties, especially a series of parties.
2. to enjoy oneself thoroughly and without restraint; indulge in pleasure.

Origin of party

1250-1300; Middle English partie Old French, noun use of feminine of parti, past participle of partir Latin partīre to share. See part

Examples for party

More to the point, Huckabee has a natural appeal to a party that has come to represent the bulk of working class white voters.

He sometimes surmised that it was because he was too outspokenly identified with the diminished liberal wing of the party.

"Then I can only say that Captain Rushton was a party to the fraud," he said.

That telegram from Coplen is concernin' of a lady—a party that was with him when he died.

Neither the Republican nor the Democratic party have done anything to consistently target Asian- American voters.

Shepler and the party were to go through the mine as a matter of sight-seeing.

Is that brother of hers you told me about still makin' up to that party?

Although the NFL party animal loves flaunting his washboard abs, he seems more fratboy than Fabio.

Now they neared the foot of the shaft where the rest of the party seemed to await them.

And like all prophets, he was under-appreciated by his country, his community, and his party for far too long.