party

party

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English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɑː.ti/
  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɑɹ.ti/, [ˈpʰɑɹɾi]
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpɑ(ː)ti/, [ˈpʰɑ(ː)ɾi]
  • Hyphenation: par‧ty
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ti

Etymology 1

From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Medieval Latin partīta (“a part, party”), from Latin partīta, feminine of partītus, past participle of partiō (“to divide”); see part. Doublet of partita.

Noun

party (plural parties)

  1. (law) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
  2. A person.
    1. (slang, dated) A person; an individual.
    2. With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
  3. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
    1. (roleplaying games, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
    2. (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
  5. (politics) Political party; political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
  7. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
  8. A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
    2. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
    3. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
    4. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
  9. A small group of birds or mammals.
  10. (obsolete) A part or division.
Synonyms
  • (social gathering): bash, do, rave
  • See also Thesaurus:party
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • → Bulgarian: парти (parti)
  • Cantonese: → 派對 / 派对 (paai3 deoi3), → party, ⇒ P
  • → Dhivehi: ޕާޓީ (pāṭī)
  • → Japanese: パーティー (pātī)
  • → Korean: 파티 (pati)
  • → Maori: pāti
  • → Malay: parti
  • → Mandarin: 趴體 / 趴体 (pātǐ), 派對 / 派对 (pàiduì)
  • → Russian: парти (parti)
Translations

Verb

party (third-person singular simple present parties, present participle partying, simple past and past participle partied)

  1. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
  2. (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
  3. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
  4. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
Derived terms
  • party down
  • party on
Translations

References

  • Party (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • party on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English party, from Old French parti (“parted”), from Latin partītus (“parted”), past participle of partiō (“to divide”). More at part.

Adjective

party (not comparable)

  1. Of a fence or wall: shared by two properties and serving to divide them.
  2. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
  3. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “party”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “party”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • praty, yrapt

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch partij, from Middle Dutch partie, from Old French partie.

Pronunciation

Noun

party (plural partye)

  1. party (group, especially a political one)

Determiner

party

  1. some, a few

Chinese

Etymology

From English party. Doublet of P, 派對 / 派对 (pàiduì), and 趴體 / 趴体 (pātǐ).

Pronunciation

Noun

party

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) party

Derived terms

References

  • English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Czech

Alternative forms

  • párty

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpaːrtɪ]

Noun

party f (indeclinable)

  1. party (gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing)
    Synonym: večírek

Related terms

  • See part

Further reading

  • “party”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • “party”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “party”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

Noun

party f or m (plural party's, diminutive party'tje n)

  1. party

Synonyms

  • feest, fuif

Derived terms

  • schuimparty

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paʁ.ti/, (Quebec) /paʁ.te/

Noun

party m or f (plural parties or partys)

  1. (North America) party (social gathering)

Usage notes

party has two genders in French: In Canada, it is a masculine noun, and in France it is a feminine noun.

Derived terms

  • garden-party
  • party hot-dog
  • suicide-party

Further reading

  • “party”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English party.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpar.ti/
  • Rhymes: -arti
  • Hyphenation: pàr‧ty

Noun

party m (invariable)

  1. party (social gathering)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Noun

party n (definite singular partyet, indefinite plural party or partyer, definite plural partya or partyene)

  1. a party (social event)

Synonyms

  • fest

References

  • “party” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English party.

Noun

party n (definite singular partyet, indefinite plural party, definite plural partya)

  1. a party (social event)

Synonyms

  • fest

References

  • “party” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpar.tɘ/
  • Rhymes: -artɘ
  • Syllabification: par‧ty

Etymology 1

Participle

party (passive adjectival)

  1. masculine singular passive adjectival participle of przeć
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

party m inan

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of part

Portuguese

Verb

party

  1. Obsolete spelling of parti.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English party.

Noun

party n (plural party-uri)

  1. party (group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose)
    Synonym: petrecere

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English party. Doublet of partida.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaɾti/ [ˈpaɾ.t̪i]
  • Rhymes: -aɾti
  • Syllabification: par‧ty

Noun

party m (plural partys or parties)

  1. party; celebration, festivity

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “party”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English party. Doublet of parti.

Pronunciation

Noun

party n

  1. party; social gathering
    Synonyms: fest, kalas, partaj

Declension

References

  • party in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • party in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • party in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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