| party | |
| 1. n. (legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. | |
| The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee. | |
| 2. n. A person. | |
| 3. n. (slang) A person; an individual. | |
| He is a queer party. | |
| 4. n. With to: an accessory, someone who takes part. | |
| I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour. | |
| 5. n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc. | |
| 6. n. (RPG, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group. | |
| 7. n. (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player. | |
| 8. n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government. | |
| The green party took 12% of the vote. | |
| 9. n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose. | |
| The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party. | |
| 10. n. A social gathering. | |
| 11. n. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing. | |
| I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday. | |
| 12. n. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity. | |
| We're expecting a large party from the London office. | |
| 13. n. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them. | |
| Tupperware party | |
| lingerie party | |
| 14. n. (obsolete) A part or division. | |
| 15. v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself. | |
| We partied until the early hours. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive, slang) To take recreational drugs. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats. | |
| 18. v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with). | |
| If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer. | |
| 19. adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part. | |
| 20. adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries. | |
| an escutcheon party per pale | |
| 21. adv. (obsolete) Partly. | |
