party

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A social event where people meet to celebrate, eat, and have fun.

   We planned a party to celebrate her birthday.

2. 2
   noun

   An organized group of people that shares political aims and tries to win power.

   The new political party won many seats in the election.

3. 3
   verb

   To enjoy yourself at a party, often by dancing and drinking.

   The students partied all night after their exams.

4. 4
   noun

   A person or group on one side of an agreement or legal case.

   Both parties signed the contract.

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Simplified etymology

Party, recorded in Middle English, ultimately derives from Latin pars, part- “part.” It originally denoted a group set against others; its familiar sense of a social gathering developed only in the early 18th century.

From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Old French partie (“side, part; portion, share; separation, division”, literally “that which is divided”), noun use of feminine of past participle of Old French partir (“to divide, separate”), from Latin partire (“to share, part, distribute, divide”), from pars (“a part, piece, a share”); see also part. First attested in c. 1300. Doublet of partita. The sense of communist party of a communist state derives Russian партия (partija), short for Коммунистическая партия (Kommunističeskaja partija).

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