Definition of Party

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Definition of Party

Party

A part or portion.

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.

A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.

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.

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.

The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.

Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.

Cause; side; interest.

A person; as, he is a queer party.

Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.

Partial; favoring one party.

Partly.

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Party Quotations

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald Reagan

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Winston Churchill

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George Carlin

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mohandas Gandhi

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
John F. Kennedy

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
Andy Warhol

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers

Party Translations

party in Afrikaans is party
party in Dutch is leden, aanhang
party in Finnish is juhla
party in German is Partie, Gesellschaft, Party
party in Italian is partito
party in Portuguese is partido
party in Spanish is acogida, banderia, fiesta

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