A Quick and Simple Dictionary

Party

1. Noun.  (legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
2. Noun.  With '''to''': an accessory, someone who takes part.
3. Noun.  (context, now) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
4. Noun.  A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
5. Noun.  (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
6. Noun.  A social gathering for entertainment and fun.
7. Noun.  A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
8. Noun.  (context, gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
9. Noun.  (context, video games) Group of characters controlled by the player.
10. Noun.  (obsolete) A part or division.
11. Noun.  A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
12. Noun.  To partake in debauchery and vice.
13. Noun.  To party and play, take part in risky sex and hard drugs, especially methamphetamine and male-on-male sex.
14. Verb.  (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
15. Verb.  (intransitive, slang) To take recreational drugs.
16. Verb.  (context, gaming) To form a party (with).
17. Adjective.  (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
18. Adverb.  (obsolete) Partly.