Party Definition–noun | 1. | a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party. |
| 2. | a group ga
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thered for a special purpose or task: a fishing party; a search party. |
| 3. | a detachment, squad, or detail of troops assigned to perform some particular mission or service. |
| 4. | a group of persons with common purposes or opinions who support one side of a dispute, question, debate, etc. |
| 5. | a group of persons with common political opinions and purposes organized for gaining political influence and governmental control and for directing government policy: the Republican party; the Democratic party. |
| 6. | the system of taking sides on public or
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political questions or the like. |
| 7. | attachment or devotion to one side or faction; partisanship: to put considerations of party first. |
| 8. | Law. | a. | one of the litigants in a legal proceeding; a plaintiff or defendant in a suit. |
| b. | a signatory to a legal instrument. |
| c. | a person participating in or otherwise privy to a crime. |
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| 9. | a person or group that participates in some action, affair, plan, etc.; participant: He was a party to the merger deal. |
| 10. | the person under consideration; a specific individual: Look at the party in the green velvet shorts. |
| 11. | a person or, usually, two or more persons together patronizing a restaurant, attending a social or cultural function, etc.: The headwaiter asked how many were in our party; a party of 12 French physicists touring the labs; a party of one at the small table. |
| 12. | a person participating in a telephone conversation: I have your party on the line. |
| 13. | any occasion or activity likened to a social party, as specified; session: The couple in the next apartment are having their usual dish-throwing party. |
| 14. | an advantageous or pleasurable situation or combination of circumstances of some duration and often of questionable character; period of content, license, exemption, etc.: The police broke in and suddenly the party was over for the nation's most notorious gunman. |
–adjective | 15. | of or pertaining to a party or faction; partisan: party leaders. |
| 16. | of or for a social gathering: her new party dress. |
| 17. | being shared by or pertaining to two or more persons or things. |
| 18. | Heraldry. (of an escutcheon) having the field divided into a number of parts, usually two; parted. |
–verb (used without object) Informal. | 19. | to go to or give parties, esp. a series of parties. |
| 20. | to enjoy oneself thoroughly and without restraint; indulge in pleasure. |
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Idea Definition–noun | 1. | any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity. |
| 2. | a thought, conception, or notion: That is an excellent idea. |
| 3. | an impression: He gave me a general idea of how he plans to run the department. |
| 4. | an opinion, view, or belief: His ideas on raising children are certainly strange. |
| 5. | a plan of action; an intention: the idea of becoming an engineer. |
| 6. | a groundless supposition; fantasy. |
| 7. | Philosophy. | a. | a concept developed by the mind. |
| b. | a conception of what is desirable or ought
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to be; ideal. |
| c. | (initial capital letter ) Platonism. Also called form. an archetype or pattern of which the individual objects in any natural class are imperfect copies and from which they derive their being. |
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| 8. | Music. a theme, phrase, or figure. |
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