party
Forms
- Plural
- parties
- present (v1)
- party
- past (v2)
- partied
- past participle (v3)
- partied
- present participle
- partying
- 3rd person singular
- parties
Definitions
1.A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract.
- The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
2.A detachment of troops selected for a particular service or duty.
- The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.
3.A group of people gathered together, especially temporarily, for a specific purpose such as travel or sport.
- I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday.
- Do you have a table available for a party of four?
- We're expecting a large party from the London office.
4.A small group of birds or mammals.
- Small parties and flocks close to breeding sites commonly give shrill, high-pitched, trilling screams.
- A party of mynas, consisting of several males and females, once selected the top of a low terraced roof, just below my verandah, as a site for courting and quarrelling.
1.To take recreational drugs.(slang)
- “Miss, do you party?” the boy asked. “What?” Jennifer asked back. “Do you smoke? I'll get you some cheap. One American dollar equals forty Jamaican dollars. I'll get you as much of the stuff as you need.”
2.To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
3.To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
- We partied until the early hours.
4.To form a party (with).
- If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #327
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Uncommon
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.