PARTY

v a part or portion.

2. party ·v cause; side; interest.

3. party ·v partial; favoring one party.

4. party ·adv partly.

5. party ·v a person; as, he is a queer party.

6. party ·v hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.

7. party ·v the plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.

8. party ·v parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.

9. party ·v a part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.

10. party ·v 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.

11. party ·v 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.

12. party ·v 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.