party1
/ˈpɑːti
/- Sometimes, caterers serving at parties and social gatherings order large quantities.
- The hotel staff encourages the use of this area for social gatherings and parties.
- A buffet of finger foods is the perfect way to serve guests at an anniversary party or wedding reception.
Synonyms
- Each ballot paper has a list of all registered political parties contesting the elections.
- The Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties are contesting every seat.
- It broke a 40-year monopoly of the two openly capitalist parties over working class politics.
Synonyms
- After an unsuccessful trip his hunting party bought him a bear cub to shoot.
- Private parties can book for trips along the coastline or upriver to Waterford.
- The most organised person in our party had brought a torch, but we also had our own guide to help us find our way home.
Synonyms
- In such cases, resort to binding adjudication will require the agreement of all parties to the dispute.
- She accused both parties in the dispute of losing sight of the fact that the people who were suffering most were the students.
- This will delay the much needed reforms as the various parties dispute their respective responsibilities and the subject fades from public memory.
Synonyms
- The party on the line evidently had no idea what has happened, and said that he'll look into it.
- Seems it all began when an interested party dropped him a line in response to the story.
- A large proportion of money laundering activities involve innocent parties who are just doing their daily job unaware of their role in a crime.
Synonyms
- Maybe it's because we just like music and dancing and partying and having a good time.
- Everyone old and young brought their own food and drink and partied through to the early hours of the morning in the village square.
- Some people just come for a drink, but still, the majority have come from partying.
Synonyms
Phrases
be (or come) late to the party
be party (or a party) to
bring something to the party
Derivatives
partier
- The painful weather couldn't hold back the partiers, however.
- Houston officials are installing temporary barricades around the line to protect Super Bowl partiers.
- Looking back, I realize I was a stupid partier.
Origin
Middle English (denoting a body of people united in opposition to others, also in sense 2 of the noun): from Old French partie, based on Latin partiri 'divide into parts'. sense 1 of the noun dates from the early 18th century.
part from Old English:
This is from Latin pars, part- ‘part’, the same Latin source that gave us depart (Middle English); particle (Late Middle English); particular (Late Middle English) ‘small part’ with the sense ‘attentive to detail’ developing E17th; participate ‘take part in’ (early 16th century); partisan (mid 16th century) ‘one who takes the part of’; partition (Late Middle English) ‘something that divides into parts’; and party (Middle English). This last was originally used in the sense of a political party, and only developed the social gathering sense in the early 18th century. Latin a parte ‘at the side’ gives us apart (Late Middle English), and via French, apartment (mid 17th century), while Latin impartare ‘give a share of’ gives us impart (Late Middle English) and impartial (late 16th century).
Rhymes
party2
/ˈpɑːti/Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'particoloured'): from Old French parti 'parted', based on Latin partitus 'divided into parts' (from the verb partiri).