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Definitions of party
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a band of people associated temporarily in some activity; " they organized a party to search for food"; " the company of cooks walked into the kitchen"
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A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially ( Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.
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A part of a greater number of persons: a faction: a company met for a particular purpose: an assembly: one concerned in any affair: a single individual spoken of: ( mil.) a detachment.
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A small detachment, as of soldiers.
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Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.
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A person interested, as in a contract or a lawsuit; any person.
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A part or portion.
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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.
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Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
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Cause; side; interest.
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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.
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Partial; favoring one party.
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A person; as, he is a queer party.
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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.
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an organization to gain political power; " in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level"
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That concerns not the whole; in her., used with reference to the division of a field or charge.
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have or participate in a party; " The students were partying all night before the exam"
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a person involved in legal proceedings; " the party of the first part"
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Partly.
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A body of persons united for a common purpose, as political ascendency.
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A number of persons united in opinion or design in opposition to others belonging to the same body or community; a faction; one concerned or interested in an affair; one of two litigants; a particular person- but improperly so applied; a cause or a side; a select company or assembly; a small detachment of troops drawn from the main body.
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an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment; " he planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day"
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The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.
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A number of persons united for a particular purpose; as, a political party; faction; one concerned in an affair, cause, or side; as, a party to a suit; a small body of troops sent to do some special service; as, a scouting party; a social gathering assembled by invitation; a select company.
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Number of persons united for some purpose or interest; assembly; one concerned in any affair.
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A social company.
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Belonging to a party and not to the whole: consisting of different parties, parts, or things: ( her.) parted or divided.
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A person, corporation or other legal entity that files a lawsuit ( the plaintiff or petitioner) or defends against one ( the defendant or respondent).
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based upon or representing political parties; " party politics"; " party leaders"
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a group of people gathered together for pleasure; " she joined the party after dinner"
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A number of persons united in opinion or design; one of two litigants; one concerned in an affair; side; a distinct person; a select company; a detachment of troops.
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Divided into parts or of different parties.
Antonyms for party
looker-on, nobody, individual, nonentity, bystander, BEASTIE, zero, observer, whippersnapper, single, cipher, critter, insect, Insignificancy, snippersnapper, animal, watcher, brute, twerp, beast, wallflower, shrimp, morsel, onlooker, nullity, spectator, nonparticipant, number, zilch, dwarf.
Quotes of party
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I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
– John Bright -
But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.
– Jane Byrne -
I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.
– Kenneth Clarke -
My purpose was to get leave to bring my party into the settlements in order to outfit and to obtain the supplies that had now become necessary.
– John Charles Fremont -
I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party I'm always working or promoting something.
– Paris Hilton -
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
– John Hurt -
There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party
– Michael Laws -
Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party it's the objective.
– Rush Limbaugh -
When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund- managed by an independent third party to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
– Barack Obama -
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one -party state, because everybody would join the other party
– Ronald Reagan -
I met a hustler at a dinner party He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.
– John Schlesinger -
The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
– Billy Sunday -
Debate is almost non -existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.
– Helen Suzman -
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
– Valentina Tereshkova -
I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.
– Charles E. Trevelyan
Usage examples for party
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“ There was a lady in the party an' something in her face, when she spoke to me, put me in mind o' Na'mi, an' I remembered I was a married man. ”
– The Delectable Duchy by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch -
“ Miss Floyd's party is put off till next week. ”
– Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward -
“ Remember, Daughter, that you were party to this plan, aye, that it sprang from your far- seeing mind. ”
– The Virgin of the Sun by H. R. Haggard -
“ And then the party got under way in some sort of order. ”
– The King's Stratagem and Other Stories by Stanley J. Weyman -
“ He kept his party up to their work. ”
– The True Citizen, How To Become One by W. F. Markwick, D. D. and W. A. Smith, A. B. -
“ Is them boys and girls the party ”
– The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys by Gulielma Zollinger -
“ Perhaps her story of the party at a friend's house was true, after all. ”
– Every Man for Himself by Hopkins Moorhouse -
“ I believe it is a war party ”
– Three Sioux Scouts by Elmer Russell Gregor -
“ Then Wilbur went back to the party and gave them a hand to get started. ”
– The Boy With the U. S. Foresters by Francis Rolt-Wheeler -
“ I said that was a pity, but that room must be found for my party ”
– A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne -
“ Got an extry boy in this party ain't we? ”
– The Dual Alliance by Marjorie Benton Cooke -
“ Perhaps he knew what they were, better than any of the party ”
– The Boy Hunters by Captain Mayne Reid -
“ Mr. Sand, you lead me to suspect that you belong to the party of Ultramontanes. ”
– The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden -
“ He was that set on interviewin' this here party but Lor', he'd give him to you, same's himself. ”
– Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison -
“ The party was now at home. ”
– Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett -
“ I'll take the party said Barry eagerly. ”
– The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Ralph Connor -
“ Now tell me how long was the prisoner at the wedding party ”
– The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope -
“ When the party moved from Portray, he was to go up to London and see his lawyer. ”
– The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope -
“ A party of English soldiers came into this lady's house. ”
– Stories of American Life and Adventure by Edward Eggleston -
“ There was a party at the adjutant's, she knew. ”
– Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by Charles King