party
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/ˈpɑ(ː)ɾi/
English
Definitions
noun
- 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.”
- A person.
- A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
- 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.”
verb
- To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.“We partied until the early hours.”
- To take recreational drugs.
- To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
- To form a party (with).“If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.”
adjective
- (except in compounds) Divided; in part.
- Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.“an escutcheon party per pale”
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