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party

noun

1 150 people attended the party:

social gathering, gathering, social occasion, social event, social function, function, get-together, celebration, reunion, festivity, jamboree, reception, at-home, soirée, social;

dance, ball, ceilidh, frolic, carousal, carouse;

North American fete, hoedown, shower, bake, cookout, levee, keg party;

Australian, New Zealand corroboree;

West Indian bashment;

Hawaiian luau;

Spanish tertulia;

Judaism simcha;

informal bash, shindig, shindy, rave, blowout, beer-up, disco, do, shebang, bop, hop, whoopee, after-party;

British, informal rave-up, thrash, knees-up, beanfeast, beano, bunfight, jolly, lig;

Irish, informal hooley, crack;

North American, informal blast, wingding, kegger;

Australian, New Zealand, informal shivoo, rage, ding, jollo, rort;

South African, informal jol;

dated squash, squeeze, ding-dong.

2 the fishing party:

group, company, body, gang, band, crowd, pack, contingent;

informal bunch, crew, gaggle, posse, load.

3 left-wing parties were highly critical of the proposals:

faction, political party, group, grouping, side, alliance, affiliation, association, coalition, movement, cabal, junta, bloc, camp, set, caucus, sect.

4 a certain party's name is not to be mentioned:

person, individual, human being, somebody, someone;

informal character.

5 the trial judge must apportion blame between the parties:

litigant, plaintiff, defendant;

participant.

□ be a party to

I am not going to be a party to their plan for nabbing you:

get involved in/with, be associated with, concern/involve oneself in, be a participant in, touch, handle.

verb

let's party!:

celebrate, have fun, enjoy oneself, have a party, have a good/wild time, rave it up, carouse, make merry;

informal go out on the town, paint the town red, whoop it up, let one's hair down, make whoopee, have a night on the tiles, live it up, have a ball, go on a bender, push the boat out, go on a spree;

South African, informal jol.