word-vault/dist/data/cards/pa/party.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "party",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a social occasion, often in a person’s home, at which people eat, drink, talk, dance and enjoy themselves",
            "sensetop": "at a party",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **dinner/tea/cocktail party**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was at a **birthday party** for my friend's five-year-old daughter.",
                    "contextForm": "at a party"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **have/throw/give a party**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **hold/host a party**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Did you **go to the party**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "party games"
                },
                {
                    "text": "By now the party was in full swing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The main task faced by the host at a party is making people comfortable."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was at a party in London that night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a good snack for serving at parties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were invited to an elegant garden party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had a small party to celebrate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She attended a wedding anniversary party for her mother- and father-in-law."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They host a Christmas party every year for all the neighbours."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They went to a New Year's Eve party held at Planet Hollywood in New York City."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We occasionally hold informal parties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's planning a surprise party for her boyfriend."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He loves throwing lavish parties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm organizing an engagement party for my sister."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He gave a dinner party for some old friends."
                },
                {
                    "text": "On moving in they threw a huge house-warming party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She turned up at her fiancé's bachelor party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The girls were having a slumber party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They attended the launch party for the new film."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had a farewell party for Michelle when she left the company."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you going to Tom's leaving party?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They met at a friend's wedding party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She danced on the table at her own retirement party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is a hard-drinking, non-stop party girl."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a real party atmosphere on the last day of term."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["surprise", "impromptu", "lavish"],
                "verb + party": ["give", "have", "hold"],
                "party + verb": ["go on", "be in full swing", "break up"],
                "party + noun": ["guest", "girl"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the party", "party for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a political organization that you can vote for in elections and whose members have the same aims and ideas",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Do you belong to a **political party**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **ruling/opposition party**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Democratic/Republican/Conservative/Labour Party"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party is/are completely united on this issue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **party leader/conference**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **party member/activist/official**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Three of Australia's four main political parties supported the change."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is unlikely that either of the two main parties will get enough votes to govern alone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "From 1991 new political parties emerged to challenge the governing party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a successful politician unaffiliated with either major party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has been criticized from within his own party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How is that going to go down with the right wing of the party?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a coalition of centrist and left-wing parties"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The incumbent party has won seven out of the last nine elections."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party fears losing its majority."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Democratic party now controls the Senate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was selected as her party's candidate for mayor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She became leader of the party in 2016."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This bitter dispute finally split the party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He called the vote in a disastrous attempt to unite the party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He founded his own party, the LPF."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They formed a radical opposition party, the National Movement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "members of the parliamentary party"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are now the majority party in Parliament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They present themselves as the party of the working classes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They want to be taken seriously as a prospective party of government."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had strong links with the Communist Party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Prime Minister was cheered by the party faithful."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She continued to be loyal to the party leadership."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He denied that he had ever been a Nazi party member."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cost of party membership is relatively high."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The most important thing is to maintain party unity."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": [
                    "political",
                    "centre/​center",
                    "centre-right/​center-right"
                ],
                "verb + party": ["build", "establish", "form"],
                "party + verb": ["come to power", "gain power", "win (something)"],
                "party + noun": ["conference", "congress", "convention"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the leader of a/​the (…) party",
                    "a member of a/​the (…) party",
                    "the left wing of the party"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a group of people who are doing something together such as travelling or visiting somewhere",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The school is taking a party of 40 children to France."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The theatre gives a 10 per cent discount to parties of more than ten."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a rescue/wedding/hunting party"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A party of tourists was/were photographing the monument."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The table was taken by a party of six."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The total bill for our party of five was almost £300."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A small party of four soldiers came into view."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She arrived with a party of helpers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ship hosted a number of visits, including parties of local schoolchildren."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In 1863 Mr. Thomas Cook led his first party of tourists to Switzerland."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A small party set out from the fort."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of the party wanted to turn back."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One of the men in our party volunteered to go for help."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A guide travelled with our party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was time for us to join rest of the coach party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The visiting party included city dignitaries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A landing party was sent ashore."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hunting party came across a bear in the forest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He landed a small scouting party on the island."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The captain told the crew to prepare to receive a boarding party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They formed a raiding party to venture into enemy territory."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The wedding party climbed into the carriages."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A rescue party immediately set off by boat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several members of the England cricket touring party were robbed outside the team hotel."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["boarding", "hunting", "landing"],
                "preposition": ["party of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "one of the people or groups of people involved in a legal agreement or argument",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **guilty/innocent party**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The contract can be terminated by either party with three months' notice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The judge’s decision satisfied most of the parties concerned."
                },
                {
                    "text": "First we must notify all the interested parties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This agreement shall be binding upon both parties."
                }
            ],
            "topics": [
                "Discussion and agreement",
                "Opinion and argument",
                "Law and justice"
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["guilty", "innocent", "aggrieved"],
                "verb + party": ["notify", "be binding on", "bind"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be involved in an agreement or action",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to be party to a decision"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He refused to be a party to any violence."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Discussion and agreement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to contribute something useful to a discussion, project, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What Hislop brought to the party was real commitment and energy."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɑːti/",
                "audio": "pa/party/party__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɑːrti/",
                "audio": "pa/party/party__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting a body of people united in opposition to others, also in sense (1)): from Old French partie, based on Latin partiri ‘divide into parts’. Sense (2) dates from the early 18th cent."
}