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Party   /pˈɑrti/   Listen
noun
Party  n.  (pl. parties)  
1.
A part or portion. (Obs.) "The most party of the time."
2.
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. "Win the noble Brutus to our party." "The peace both parties want is like to last."
3.
A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), A small body of troops dispatched on special service.
4.
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.
5.
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.
6.
The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant. "The cause of both parties shall come before the judges."
7.
Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another. "If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony."
8.
Cause; side; interest. "Have you nothing said Upon this Party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?"
9.
A person; as, he is a queer party. (Now accounted a vulgarism.) Note: "For several generations, our ancestors largely employed party for person; but this use of the word, when it appeared to be reviving, happened to strike, more particularly, the fancy of the vulgar; and the consequence has been, that the polite have chosen to leave it in their undisputed possession."
Party jury (Law), a jury composed of different parties, as one which is half natives and half foreigners.
Party man, a partisan.
Party spirit, a factious and unreasonable temper, not uncommonly shown by party men.
Party verdict, a joint verdict.
Party wall.
(a)
(Arch.) A wall built upon the dividing line between two adjoining properties, usually having half its thickness on each property.
(b)
(Law) A wall that separates adjoining houses, as in a block or row.


adjective
Party  adj.  
1.
(Her.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
2.
Partial; favoring one party; partisan. "I will be true judge, and not party."
Charter party. See under Charter.


adverb
Party  adv.  Partly. (Obs.)





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"Party" Quotes from Famous Books



... especially as she expected soon to leave the country, so that one day during her stay with us, in this same bright summer weather, I induced her to accompany me to a great baptist meeting, to be held in a river settlement some four or five miles off. On reaching the creek, the rest of our party, who had acquired the true American antipathy to pedestrianism, proceeded in canoes and punts to the place, but we preferred a walk to the dazzling glare of the sunshine on the water, so took not the highway, ...
— Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick • Mrs. F. Beavan
... and leaders: two declared parties: Centre Party; Jersey Democratic Alliance note: all senators and deputies elected in 2005 ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... French island herring seldom went below three dollars a barrel, and that the smallest amount he ought to buy would be twenty-five barrels. Later on, if the fishing was good, he might send out a party to set the seines, but not now. He must buy. But ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... gathered, further, that Mr. Flack's acquaintance with Mr. Dosson and his daughters had had its origin in his crossing the Atlantic eastward in their company more than a year before, and in some slight association immediately after disembarking, but that each party had come and gone a good deal since then—come and gone however without meeting again. It was to be inferred that in this interval Miss Dosson had led her father and sister back to their native land and had then a second time directed their course to Europe. This was a ...
— The Reverberator • Henry James
... matter to be there have treated it pompously and given it reverence and adored it in a thousand merry ways, but others being confident it was not there have starved and fallen off edges and banged their heads against corners and come plump against high walls; nor can either party convince the other, nor can the doubts of either be laid to rest, nor shall it from now to the Day of Doom be established whether there is a Matter or is none; though many learned men have given up their lives to it, including Professor Britton, ...
— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc


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