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What does party mean?

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Noun
  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. (role-playing games, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
    2. (video game) A group of characters controlled by the player.
  4. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
  5. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
  6. A social gathering.
    1. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
    2. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
    3. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
  7. (obsolete) A part or division.
Verb
  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).
Adjective
  1. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
  2. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
Adverb
  1. (obsolete) Partly.
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