n. A part; a portion; a division.n. Part; side.n. A company or number of persons ranged on one side, or united in opinion or design, in opposition to others in the community; those who favor or are united to promote certain views or opinions: as, the Liberal party; the Democratic party; the party of moral ideas.n. Hence Side; cause.n. A company or band of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose; especially, a select company invited to be present and participate in some form of amusement or entertainment: as, a pleasure-party; a dinner-party; a theater-party.n. A detached part of a larger body or company; specifically (military), a detachment or small number of troops sent on a special service, as to intercept an enemy's convoy,to reconnoiter, to seek forage.n. In law: One of the lit-igants in a legal proceeding; a plaintiff or de-fendant in a suit: sometimes used collectively to include all the persons named on one side.n. One expressly concerned or interested in an affair: as, a party to a contract or an agreement; the party of the first part.n. One who is privy to a transaction or affair, or connected with it in any way; one who is more or less of an accomplice or accessory.n. A person; a particular person, as distinct from and opposed to any other; a person under special consideration; a person in general; an individual: as, an old party of my acquaintance.n. Compact; treaty.n. Synonyms Combination, Faction, etc. (see cabal), league, set, clique, alliance, coalition.Partial; manifesting partiality.Of or pertaining to a faction or party; partizan: as, party lines; party issues.Divided; in part.Specifically In heraldry, divided into parts, usually equal: said of the field, especially when the division is in the direction of one of the ordinaries.n. Same as parti.