party
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
party1
▶noun (pl. parties)
- 1 a social gathering of invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment.
- 2 a formally constituted political group that contests elections and attempts to take part in government.
- 3 a group of people taking part in a particular activity or trip.
- 4 a person or group forming one side in an agreement or dispute.
- 5 informal a person, especially one with specified characteristics.
– phrases
be party (or a party) to be involved in.
be party (or a party) to be involved in.
– origin ME: from OFr. partie, based on L. partiri ‘divide into parts’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
party2
▶adjective Heraldry divided into parts of different tinctures.
– origin ME: from OFr. parti ‘parted’.
'party' also found in these Oxford entries:
additional member system
- adherent
- ALP
- apparat
- apparatchik
- appellee
- Baathist
- bachelor party
- back-to-back
- bailee
- bailor
- bash
- beanfeast
- beano
- big
- blame game
- blast
- BNP
- Bolshevik
- boogie
- bossism
- bunfight
- BYOB
- camp
- card-carrying
- carouse
- caucus
- cc
- charter party
- clipper
- concert party
- conservative
- consideration
- contributory negligence
- convention
- cookout
- cost
- counter
- CP
- crash
- cross-bencher
- cross-examine
- cross-party
- cross-voting
- crumble
- deal-breaker
- death futures
- declarant
- decree absolute
- deed poll
