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party
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??.ti/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /?p??.ti/, [?p????i]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?p?(?)?i/, [?p??(?)?i]
- Rhymes: -??(r)ti
- Hyphenation: par?ty
Etymology 1
From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Medieval Latin part?ta (“a part, party”), from Latin part?ta, feminine of part?tus, past participle of part?r? (“to divide”); see part. Doublet of partita.
Noun
party (plural parties)
- (law) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- if the Jury had found that the party slain had been of English race and nation, it had been adjudged felony
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- A person.
- (slang, dated) A person; an individual.
- With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
- (slang, dated) A person; an individual.
- (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
- 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Ch.6:
- A mile back in the forest the tribe had heard the fierce challenge of the gorilla, and, as was his custom when any danger threatened, Kerchak called his people together, partly for mutual protection against a common enemy, since this gorilla might be but one of a party of several, and also to see that all members of the tribe were accounted for.
- (role-playing games, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.
- (video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
- 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Ch.6:
- A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. […] A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.
- The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
- (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
- A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
- A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
- A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
- A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
- A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
- (obsolete) A part or division.
- And so the moost party of the castel that was falle doune thorugh that dolorous stroke laye vpon Pellam and balyn thre dayes.
Synonyms
- (social gathering): bash, do, rave
- See also Thesaurus:party
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ?????? (p?r??)
- ? Japanese: ????? (p?t?)
- ? Korean: ?? (pati)
Translations
Verb
party (third-person singular simple present parties, present participle partying, simple past and past participle partied)
- (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
- We partied until the early hours.
- (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
- (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
- (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
- If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
Derived terms
- party down
- party on
Translations
References
- Party (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- party on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English party, from Old French parti (“parted”), from Latin part?tus (“parted”), past participle of partiri (“to divide”). More at part.
Adjective
party (not comparable)
- (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
- (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
- an escutcheon party per pale
Derived terms
Further reading
- party in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- party in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- praty, yrapt
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch partij, from Middle Dutch partie, from Old French partie.
Noun
party (plural partye)
- party (group, especially a political one)
Determiner
party
- some, a few
Czech
Alternative forms
- párty
Noun
party f
- party (gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing)
Synonyms
- See ve?írek
Related terms
- See part
Further reading
- party in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
- party in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English party.
Pronunciation
Noun
party f or m (plural party's, diminutive party'tje n)
- party
Synonyms
- feest, fuif
Derived terms
- schuimparty
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English party.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?.ti/
Noun
party m or f (plural parties or partys)
- (Canada) party (social gathering)
Usage notes
party has two genders in French: In Canada, it is a masculine noun, and in France it is a feminine noun.
Derived terms
- garden-party
- party hot-dog
- suicide-party
Further reading
- “party” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English party.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?par.ti/
Noun
party m (invariable)
- party (social gathering)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English party.
Noun
party n (definite singular partyet, indefinite plural party or partyer, definite plural partya or partyene)
- a party (social event)
Synonyms
- fest
References
- “party” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English party.
Noun
party n (definite singular partyet, indefinite plural party, definite plural partya)
- a party (social event)
Synonyms
- fest
References
- “party” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?par.t?/
Participle
party
- masculine singular passive adjectival participle of prze?
Declension
Portuguese
Verb
party
- Obsolete spelling of parti
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English party. Doublet of partida.
Noun
party m (plural partys or parties)
- party
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English party.
Pronunciation
Noun
party n
- party; social gathering
Declension
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body
English
Alternative forms
- bodie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English bodi, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd?- (“to be awake, observe”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?di/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?di/, [?b??i]
- Rhymes: -?di
- Hyphenation: bod?y
- Homophone: bawdy (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Noun
body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)
- Physical frame.
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]
- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. [from 13th c.]
- The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- A corpse. [from 13th c.]
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person. [from 13th c.]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 463:
- Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 28:
- Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
- What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 463:
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)
- This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.
- 2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations (page 3)
- In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.
- 2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies (page 5)
- As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.
- 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]
- Main section.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]
- The boxer took a blow to the body.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. [from 11th c.]
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
- (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. [from 16th c.]
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. [from 17th c.]
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. [from 20th c.]
- In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]
- Coherent group.
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]
- The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. [from 17th c.]
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
- Material entity.
- Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence. [from 17th c.]
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
- We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). [from 17th c.]
- The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
- In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]
- 2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, "World's largest extrusive body of sand?", Geology, volume 40, issue 5
- Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.
- The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
- 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
- Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- a nonpareil face on an agate body
- 1992, Mary Kay Duggan, ?Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (page 99)
- The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:body
- See also Thesaurus:corpse
Derived terms
Pages starting with “body”.
Translations
See also
- corporal
- corporeal
Verb
body (third-person singular simple present bodies, present participle bodying, simple past and past participle bodied)
- To give body or shape to something.
- And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name. — Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- To construct the bodywork of a car.
- (transitive) To embody.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
- (transitive, slang, video games) to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.
References
Anagrams
- BYOD, Boyd, Doby, do by
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bod?/
- Rhymes: -od?
- Hyphenation: bo?dy
Etymology 1
From English body, bodysuit.
Noun
body n (indeclinable)
- bodysuit, leotard
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
body
- nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of bod
Anagrams
- doby
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English body.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?.di/
- Hyphenation: bo?dy
Noun
body m (plural body's, diminutive body'tje n)
- A leotard.
- Body, substance.
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?body/, [?bo?dy]
- IPA(key): /?bodi/, [?bo?di]
- Rhymes: -ody
- Homophone: bodi
- Syllabification: bo?dy
Noun
body
- snapsuit, diaper shirt, onesies (infant bodysuit)
Declension
Pronunciation ?body:
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?.di/
Noun
body m (invariable)
- leotard
- Synonym: calzamaglia
Further reading
- body in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Scots
Alternative forms
- bodie
Etymology
From Middle English body, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”).
Noun
body (plural bodies)
- body
- person, human being
Spanish
Noun
body m (plural bodys or bodies)
- bodysuit
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