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masquerade

A masquerade is a festive gathering of people wearing masks or other disguises, often elegant, historical, or fantastic in nature.

Writers have been dazzled by masquerade balls since the term entered English in the late 1500s, ultimately from the Italian mascherata. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet the “star-crossed lovers” meet at a masquerade. Edgar Allan Poe also uses a masquerade as a plot-propelling device in his 1842 short story “The Masque of the Red Death.”

fete

A fete is a festive celebration. It comes from the French word of the same spelling, meaning “feast.”

Its counterpart in Spanish is fiesta. Fetes sometimes have religious associations, but not always.

shindig

A shindig is a large party, usually with dancing.

An Americanism that emerged in the mid-1800s, it might be influenced by the earlier terms shindy and shinty. Shindig is a portmanteau of shin and dig, no doubt referring to the movements of the legs while dancing.

salon

During the Enlightenment, it became popular for leading thinkers of society, from artists and musicians to philosophers and politicians, to gather together in the home of an intellectual for an afternoon or evening of lively conversation.

Salon comes from the French term meaning “lounge.” In the late 1600s, salon began to refer to a well-furnished room in a home, designed for entertaining guests.

wing-ding

Though less common than shindig, wing-ding is another term to describe a party.

A rhyming reduplication of wing, this term evokes the flapping motion of a bird’s wing. When it first entered English in the 1920s, it was an Americanism to describe a fit of rage, though by the 1940s, it could also refer to a wild party.

clambake

When English speakers started using the term clambake in the 1830s, they were referring to an outdoor party in which clams were cooked, traditionally on hot stones.

Over time, the word took on a more general sense of a “picnic”—no clams required. By the 1930s, clambake could be extended to refer to any type of lively social gathering, even one that didn’t feature food as a focal point.

prom

In the United States, a prom is a formal dance held at the end of high school, usually for seniors.

It was first used in English in the late 1800s, and is a shortening of the word promenade, which comes from the French meaning “a leisurely stroll.” A promenade could also refer to the march of guests into a ballroom during a formal ball. In the UK, prom is used to refer to promenade concerts in which some of the audience stands.

soiree

A soiree is a party held in the evening, especially one held for a particular purpose.

English speakers have been holding soirees since the late 18th century, when the term entered the language from the French soir meaning “evening.” Soiree ultimately comes from the Latin s?rus meaning “late.”

What is another word for party?

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Synonyms for Party:

• n.

  •
  • accommodation,
  • feast,
  • dinner,
  • reception,
  • blowout,
  • tear,
  • amusement,
  • diversion,
  • recreation,
  • commission,
  • splurge,
  • binge,
  • ball,
  • performance,
  • police,
  • gala,
  • association,
  • riot,
  • flash mobbing,
  • organization,
  • carousal,
  • shindig,
  • fun,
  • spree,
  • affair,
  • banquet,
  • flash mob,
  • gathering,
  • Support Group,
  • panel,
  • tea,
  • function,
  • social.
  •
  • afterparty,
  • B and S,
  • block party,
  • multitude,
  • baby shower,
  • bachelorette party,
  • bachelor party,
  • all-nighter.
  •
  • combine,
  • nationalist,
  • apolitical,
  • bipartisan,
  • combination,
  • liberal,
  • electorate,
  • ministerial,
  • dissident,
  • front,
  • independent,
  • the faithful.
  •
  • drink in,
  • litigant,
  • love,
  • get,
  • agent,
  • go in for,
  • take/find pleasure in (doing) something,
  • revel in,
  • delight in,
  • have your fun,
  • contractor,
  • confederate,
  • like.
  •
  • performing arts.
  •
  • participate.
  •
  • soul,
  • human being,
  • personage,
  • human,
  • life,
  • being,
  • mortal,
  • man,
  • creature.
  •
  • bundle,
  • cluster,
  • lot,
  • batch,
  • clutch,
  • knot,
  • array,
  • clump.

  • allied group, association (noun)

  • coalition.

  • amusement, entertainment, occasionally to excess (noun)

  • dissipation.

  • band (noun)

  • menageries.

  • barbecue (noun)

  • clam bakes,
  • wienie roasts,
  • wienie roast,
  • clam bake.

  • bee (noun)

  • socials,
  • communal gathering,
  • communal gatherings,
  • work parties,
  • work party.

  • belief, religion (noun)

  • persuasion.

  • bevy (noun)

  • be vies,
  • be-vies.

  • blast (noun)

  • good times,
  • great times,
  • great time,
  • blow outs,
  • blow out,
  • good time.

  • body (noun)

  • mob,
  • throngs.

  • brigade (noun)

  • brigade.

  • bunch (noun)

  • shooting matches,
  • Sheaves,
  • shebangs,
  • shebang,
  • messes,
  • caboodle,
  • caboodles,
  • shooting match,
  • sheaf.

  • celebration (noun)

  • jubilee,
  • wassail,
  • Festivals,
  • memorialization,
  • glorification,
  • jubilees,
  • jollifications,
  • wingdings,
  • merriments,
  • wingding,
  • jubilation,
  • jollification,
  • solemnization.

  • celebration devoted to sensual enjoyment (noun)

  • orgy.

  • circle (noun)

  • insider,
  • in group,
  • in groups,
  • in-group,
  • camarilla,
  • in sider,
  • insiders,
  • in-sider,
  • in-groups,
  • ingroups,
  • ingroup,
  • fraternity,
  • camarillas.

  • coalition (noun)

  • mergings,
  • anschlusses,
  • mergences,
  • Anschluss,
  • coadunations,
  • Coadunation,
  • mergence,
  • meldings,
  • Melding.

  • collection of something (noun)

  • bunch.

  • combination (noun)

  • consortium,
  • consortia.

  • company (noun)

  • visitant,
  • visitors,
  • visitor,
  • troupe,
  • retinue,
  • company.

  • creature (noun)

  • varmint,
  • varmints,
  • critters,
  • woman,
  • critter,
  • living being,
  • lower animals,
  • living things,
  • living beings,
  • lower animal,
  • quadruped,
  • living thing,
  • quadrupeds.

  • crowd (noun)

  • great unwashed,
  • rank and file,
  • streams,
  • flood,
  • de luge,
  • peoples,
  • rank file,
  • de-luges,
  • gaggles,
  • great unwasheds,
  • de luges,
  • de-luge,
  • gaggle,
  • ruck.

  • crowd of animate beings (noun)

  • crush.

  • cultural subgroup (noun)

  • subculture.

  • detail (noun)

  • de-tail,
  • kitchen police,
  • de tails,
  • de tail,
  • KPS,
  • de-tails,
  • kitchen polices.

  • dissipation (noun)

  • dis-traction,
  • selfindulgence,
  • re-creations,
  • dis tractions,
  • self indulgence,
  • re-creation,
  • divertissements,
  • re creations,
  • blow-outs,
  • re creation,
  • self-indulgence,
  • Divertissement,
  • dis-tractions,
  • blow-out,
  • dis traction.

  • disturbance or party (noun)

  • shindy.

  • drive, campaign (noun)

  • movement.

  • entertainment (noun)

  • clambakes,
  • re-lief,
  • Leisure Activity,
  • fun games,
  • lots of laugh,
  • fun and games,
  • Regalement,
  • relaxation,
  • sur prise,
  • re laxations,
  • lots of laughs,
  • de lights,
  • clambake,
  • re-laxation,
  • lots laugh,
  • de-light,
  • sur prises,
  • re laxation,
  • sur-prise,
  • fun and gameses,
  • de-lights,
  • re lief,
  • sur-prises,
  • pastime,
  • fun gameses,
  • de light,
  • lots laughs,
  • re-laxations,
  • regalements,
  • Leisure Activities.

  • event (noun)

  • party.

  • expedition (noun)

  • traveller,
  • voyager,
  • entrada,
  • fleet,
  • voyagers,
  • travellers,
  • exploration,
  • voyage.

  • faction (noun)

  • sectors,
  • de sign,
  • de-signs,
  • splinter group,
  • de signs,
  • de-sign,
  • combo,
  • combos.

  • feast (noun)

  • saturnalia.

  • festivity (noun)

  • Festivities,
  • do’s,
  • whoopees,
  • whoopee,
  • revelings,
  • revelments,
  • dos,
  • Revelment.

  • function (noun)

  • functions.

  • fun time (noun)

  • blast.

  • gaiety (noun)

  • festiveness.

  • gala (noun)

  • TODO,
  • to do,
  • moveable feasts,
  • stags,
  • stag,
  • moveable feast.

  • gang (noun)

  • gang,
  • tribe.

  • gang, group (noun)

  • covey,
  • bevy,
  • crowd,
  • assembly,
  • force,
  • crew,
  • unit,
  • team,
  • detachment,
  • troop,
  • outfit,
  • squad,
  • band,
  • body.

  • gathering (noun)

  • get-together,
  • social function,
  • social functions.

  • get-together (noun)

  • gettogether,
  • social events,
  • social occasion,
  • social event,
  • social affair,
  • social affairs,
  • social occasions.

  • group (noun)

  • political party.

  • group of close friends, associates (noun)

  • circle.

  • group participating together (noun)

  • ring.

  • group sharing a belief or cause (noun)

  • faction.

  • group sharing belief (noun)

  • cult.

  • group supporting certain beliefs (noun)

  • coterie,
  • grouping,
  • side,
  • junta,
  • confederacy,
  • sect,
  • set,
  • league,
  • union,
  • clique,
  • cabal.

  • individual (noun)

  • somebody,
  • someone,
  • part,
  • character.

  • meal cooked on grill (noun)

  • barbecue.

  • merrymaking (noun)

  • bacchanal,
  • revelry.

  • military troop (noun)

  • detail.

  • mixer (noun)

  • cocktail party,
  • social gathering.

  • mortal (noun)

  • naked ape,
  • naked apes,
  • living souls,
  • living soul.

  • movement (noun)

  • Movements,
  • dis placements,
  • dis-placement,
  • mobilizations,
  • evolution,
  • dis-placements,
  • un-rests,
  • un rests,
  • un rest,
  • un-rest,
  • transition,
  • mobilization,
  • dis placement.

  • noisy celebration (noun)

  • jamboree.

  • number of individuals collectively (noun)

  • group.

  • organization (noun)

  • co operative,
  • co-operatives,
  • co operatives,
  • cooperatives,
  • co-operative,
  • Monopolies.

  • orgy (noun)

  • over-indulgences,
  • ex-cess,
  • over-indulgence,
  • ex cess,
  • ex-cesses,
  • bacchanalia,
  • over indulgences,
  • over indulgence,
  • bacchanalias.

  • outfit (noun)

  • out-fit,
  • out-fits,
  • out fits,
  • out fit.

  • participant (noun)

  • Participator,
  • partakers,
  • a party tos,
  • sharer,
  • participators,
  • sharers,
  • partaker,
  • INS.

  • partizan (noun)

  • partizan.

  • partnership (noun)

  • co-operation,
  • co operations,
  • joinings,
  • Consociation,
  • co-operations,
  • consociations,
  • sisterhood,
  • co operation.

  • person (noun)

  • gal,
  • GALS.

  • person(s) involved in legal action (noun)

  • Cojuror,
  • Compurgator,
  • plotter,
  • plaintiff.

  • persuasion (noun)

  • school of thought.

  • pleasing entity or occurrence (noun)

  • treat.

  • revel (noun)

  • Skylarking,
  • skylarkings.

  • revelry (noun)

  • whoop-de-dos,
  • whooplas,
  • whoopla,
  • whoop-de-do,
  • whoop de dos,
  • whoop de do.

  • ring (noun)

  • junto,
  • Juntos.

  • school (noun)

  • school.

  • side (noun)

  • belligerents.

  • singular person, thing (noun)

  • individual.

  • social gathering (noun)

  • prom,
  • luncheon,
  • carousing,
  • festive occasion,
  • movable feast,
  • DO,
  • coming-out,
  • cocktails,
  • coffee klatch,
  • at-home.

  • spree (noun)

  • spending expeditions,
  • field days,
  • spending expedition,
  • carousings,
  • merry go round,
  • field day,
  • merry-go-rounds,
  • merry go rounds,
  • merry-go-round.

  • team (noun)

  • partners,
  • stables,
  • tandems,
  • foursomes,
  • tandem.

  • treat (noun)

  • goody,
  • Dainties.

  • troop (noun)

  • servicemen,
  • fighting men,
  • servicemens,
  • fighting mens,
  • MENS.

  • troop/troops (noun)

  • troopers,
  • fighting force,
  • soldiery,
  • trooper,
  • soldieries,
  • fighting forces,
  • de legations,
  • service personnel,
  • de legation,
  • de-legation,
  • de-legations,
  • service personnels.

  • troupe (noun)

  • stock company,
  • acting companies,
  • acting company,
  • stock companies,
  • repertory company.

• v.

  • celebrate (verb)

  • enjoy,
  • solemnize,
  • acclaim,
  • frolic,
  • memorialize,
  • praise,
  • cheer,
  • laud,
  • trumpet,
  • make merry,
  • exult,
  • honor,
  • venerate,
  • hail,
  • inaugurate,
  • glorify,
  • commemorate,
  • rejoice,
  • proclaim,
  • hallow,
  • salute,
  • jubilate,
  • revel,
  • carouse,
  • observe.

  • have a ball (verb)

  • lets steam,
  • went town,
  • getting it on,
  • raises roof,
  • going town,
  • going to town,
  • go town,
  • have ball,
  • letted off steam,
  • letting off steam,
  • kicked up one’s heels,
  • raised roof,
  • raises the roof,
  • paints town red,
  • kicking heels,
  • went to town,
  • gat it on,
  • raised the roof,
  • goes town,
  • raising roof,
  • let steam,
  • letted loose,
  • gets it on,
  • kick heels,
  • goes to town,
  • raise roof,
  • letted steam,
  • gotten it on,
  • letting steam,
  • lets off steam,
  • got it on.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)

  • fete,
  • get together,
  • have a party,
  • entertainment,
  • meet,
  • organize,
  • congregate,
  • gather.

  • regale (verb)

  • hadst a get together,
  • having a gettogether,
  • toss party,
  • hast get together,
  • gives party,
  • has get-together,
  • having a get-together,
  • have a get together,
  • has get together,
  • gave a party,
  • hadst gettogether,
  • had a get together,
  • hath a get together,
  • hast get-together,
  • has a get together,
  • haddest a get-together,
  • de lighted,
  • hadst get together,
  • de-lighted,
  • haddest gettogether,
  • have gettogether,
  • laughs up,
  • giving party,
  • hath a gettogether,
  • hath get-together,
  • hath a get-together,
  • hast a get together,
  • hath gettogether,
  • tost a party,
  • has gettogether,
  • having get-together,
  • hadst get-together,
  • having gettogether,
  • tossed a party,
  • tossed party,
  • tossing party,
  • haddest get together,
  • re-freshes,
  • have get-together,
  • laugh up,
  • hadst a gettogether,
  • tosses party,
  • laughed up,
  • have get together,
  • has a gettogether,
  • tossing a party,
  • has a get-together,
  • laughing it up,
  • had get together,
  • re freshes,
  • hast a gettogether,
  • re-fresh,
  • gave party,
  • haddest get-together,
  • giving a party,
  • hast a get-together,
  • give party,
  • de-lighting,
  • having a get together,
  • hath get together,
  • hast gettogether,
  • laughs it up,
  • tosses a party,
  • have a gettogether,
  • having get together,
  • had a gettogether,
  • re-gales,
  • laughed it up,
  • re-gale,
  • haddest a get together,
  • had gettogether,
  • haddest a gettogether,
  • de lighting,
  • gives a party,
  • tost party,
  • re gale,
  • laughing up,
  • hadst a get-together,
  • re gales,
  • had get-together,
  • had a get-together.

  • wassail (verb)

  • got drunk,
  • clinks glasses,
  • clinked glasses,
  • raises glass to,
  • raise ones glass to,
  • raised ones glass to,
  • raising one glass to,
  • getting drunk,
  • raised glass to,
  • raised one’s glass to,
  • raised one glass to,
  • clinking glasses,
  • drinks to,
  • raising glass to,
  • raising ones glass to,
  • raises ones glass to,
  • gotten drunk,
  • gets drunk,
  • raising one’s glass to,
  • raises one glass to,
  • raise glass to,
  • raise one glass to,
  • raises one’s glass to,
  • gat drunk.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • soiree,
  • enjoy oneself,
  • defendant,
  • bee.
  •
  • dance,
  • expedition,
  • picnic,
  • government,
  • corps,
  • merriment,
  • participant,
  • machine,
  • ticket,
  • concentration,
  • cartel.
  •
  • bloc,
  • mask,
  • festivity,
  • bash,
  • alliance,
  • actor.
  •
  • mixer,
  • person.
  •
  • player.
  •
  • homo-.
  •
  • occasion.

  • alliance

  • partnership.

  • celebrate

  • made merry,
  • live it up,
  • raising hell,
  • mark with a red letter,
  • ritualizing,
  • drink to,
  • ritualize,
  • ceremonialize,
  • beat the drum,
  • ritualized,
  • let loose,
  • blow off steam,
  • make whoopee,
  • raise hell,
  • letting loose,
  • living it up,
  • beating the drum,
  • kick one’s heels,
  • partying,
  • kick up heels,
  • kick up one’s heels.

  • enjoy

  • night.

  • indulgence

  • fling.

  • Other relevant words:

  • have a ball,
  • regale,
  • get it on,
  • celebration,
  • let off steam,
  • partied,
  • making merry,
  • celebrate,
  • go to town,
  • makes merry,
  • lets loose,
  • got down,
  • raising the roof,
  • raise the roof,
  • get down,
  • paint the town red,
  • joviality.

  • party

  • open house.

  • quartet

  • foursome.

  • regale

  • Regaled,
  • give a party,
  • toss a party,
  • Fracturing,
  • have a get-together,
  • laugh it up,
  • fractured,
  • Regaling.

  • revel

  • masquerade.

  • wassail

  • raise one’s glass to,
  • clink glasses,
  • get drunk.

  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • caller,
  • order,
  • community,
  • partisan,
  • phoner,
  • guy,
  • telephoner,
  • minor party,
  • religious order,
  • duck,
  • accessory,
  • church,
  • cohort,
  • interest,
  • communion,
  • calling party,
  • a party to,
  • major party,
  • denomination,
  • affiliation,
  • joker,
  • Sectarism.

How to use «Party» in context?

Paraphrases for Party:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    groups.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    party-to-party.
  • Proper noun, singular
    partners.
  • Noun, plural
    partners, celebrations, players.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    partner, partying.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    part.
  • Proper noun, singular
    group, part, parts, Bodies, Does, Has, Its, Replies, Aspirations, Rights, meetings, figures, responses, groups, obligations, aspects, comments, councils, requirements, parti, partido, councillors.
  • Noun, plural
    parts, Festivities, Leaves, games, Holidays, benefits, ranks, corners, guys, segments, proportions, amounts, bits, passages, fences, swaths, gangs.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    birthday, fraction, group, majority, part, Capita, party-political.
  • Adverb
    partly.
  • Verb, past tense
    added, broke, celebrated, competing, conducted, contained, dashed, departed, engaged, enrolled, expressed, fell, found, part, plugged, proposed, ratified, represented, said, sat, turned, Acceded, Appeared, Arrived, Belonged, Disappeared, Encompassed, Participated, Passed, Served, Took, Walked, Contributed, Proceeded, started, partied, groups.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    approaching, becoming, being, belonging, coming, competing, dealing, engaging, entering, going, heading, joining, leaving, living, missing, part, parts, serving, sitting, speaking, suffering, Explaining, Indicating, Quitting, coping, Stemming, Staying.
  • Verb, past participle
    absorbed, added, admitted, affiliated, assigned, associated, attached, based, biased, bound, built, categorized, classified, considered, contained, covered, derived, discarded, discharged, drawn, driven, embedded, embodied, employed, engaged, entrenched, experienced, featured, formed, founded, guided, implicated, linked, listed, located, named, placed, ratified, reflected, represented, resigned, retained, rooted, situated, sustained, tied, Acceded, Adhered, Anchored, Attributed, Captured, Cited, Disappeared, Earmarked, Embarked, Enshrined, Entered, Enunciated, Excluded, Exercised, Existed, Flown, Housed, Judged, Originated, Participated, Perpetrated, Regarded, Served, Comprised, Consigned, Contributed, Counted, Predicated, Premised, Stationed, started, subsumed.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    falls, part, parts, proceeds, Bases, Halves, Leaves, Forms, SITS, departs, goes, serves, assumes, enters, adds, includes, originates, contributes, participates, splits, relies, builds, stems, starts, begins, belongs.

• Other Related

  • Noun, plural
    conservatives, lawmakers.

Homophones for Party:

• parti.

Holonyms for Party:

• n.

  • group
    form of government, political system.

Hypernym for Party:

• n.

  • event
    fete, jolly, tea party, brawl, fiesta, ceilidh, house party, dance, feast, cocktail party, bash, whist drive, bun-fight, DO, bunfight, birthday party.
  • group
    liberty party, shindig, dinner, greenback party, know-nothing party, constitutional union party, sociable, lawn party, democratic-republican party, farmer-labor party, stag party, conservative party, progressive party, American Federalist Party, party to the transaction, Labour Party, liberal party, labor party, anti-masonic party, masque, green party, fatigue party, black panthers, Nazi Party, masquerade party, dance, reception, opposition, smoker, bull moose party, war party, shindy, socialist party, federal party, stretcher party, gop, rescue party, socialist labor party, shower, militant tendency, social democratic party, slumber party, Fete Champetre, American Labor Party, Whig Party, party to the action, dixiecrats, liberal democrat party, people’s party, open house, soiree, guomindang, wedding, search party, American Party, dinner party, wedding party, masquerade, mixer, landing party, communist party, reunion, populist party, hen party, states’ rights democratic party, third party, prohibition party, republican party, mask, garden party, gironde, democratic party, free soil party, National Socialist German Workers’ Party, kuomintang, federalist party, housewarming, social.
  • person
    intervenor, litigant, litigator, Jane Doe, assignee, reversioner, vouchee, tort-feasor, Richard Roe, tortfeasor, contractor, assignor, John doe.

• v.

  • social
    rave.

Hyponym for Party:

• n.

  • event
    function, occasion, social function, social occasion, affair.
  • group
    lot, organization, social gathering, circle, set, social affair, band, organisation.
  • person
    somebody, soul, someone, person, mortal, individual.

• v.

  • social
    celebrate, fete.

Omophagic

Synonyms:

herbivorous,
omnivorous.

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