Party

A party is a social gathering intended primarily for celebration (party) and recreation. While having some things in common with religious and seasonal festivals, the term "party" usually denotes a smaller gathering for a personal, rather than cultural, occasion even when the occasion is simply that of enjoyment. Reasons for parties, and the style in which they are held, are as diverse as the activities which people find enjoyable. Some are held to mark a particular joyous occasion, such as a birthday, wedding, or coming of age. Such parties are usually associated with family and close friends. A holiday often provides the pretext for smaller parties as well as broader festival activities. Some parties, such as the traditional English tea party or the modern cocktail party, are social gatherings within a fairly formal, or at least stylized, atmosphere. At the other end of the spectrum are such events as the rave party, which are generally counter-cultural in nature and tend to challenge concepts of what is "proper." Some varieties of party stress a particular form of entertainment, such as the ''bridge party'', which is focused around the card game of Contract bridge, the ''pool party'', usually an outdoor affair centered on a swimming pool, or the ''costume party'', an offshoot of the masquerade ball, where the costumes of the participants provide the theme for the event. Parties provide numerous opportunities for social interaction of various kinds, depending on the participants and their understanding of the accepted behavior for a given occasion. As a result, they tend to reinforce cultural and/or counter-cultural standards, though sometimes this is simply by providing a semi-acceptable social context for violating some of those standards. Some examples of this would be parties for singles (people who are unmarried) and the Bachelor party or the Bachelorette party, a final celebration of a man or woman, respectivly, before marriage. ==See also== * party game * LAN party * sleepover ==External links== Parties

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Party-list_proportional_representation
Party-stub
PartyGaming
PartyGaming
Partygaming
Partyguy87
Partyline
Partyline/Temp
PartyWagon
Party_(album)
Party_(album)
Party_(disambiguation)
Party_(law)
Party_admission
Party_admissions
Party_affiliations_in_the_Council_of_the_European_Union
Party_Alliance_Our_Moldova
Party_Animals
Party_Ball
Party_boy
Party_Chair
Party_Chancellery
Party_City
Party_class
Party_Comparison_of_British_House_of_Commons
Party_Congress
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Party_Cruiser
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Party_designation_in_early_United_States_Congresses
Party_designation_in_early_United_States_Congresses/delete
Party_dicipline
Party_Direction_-_Third_Way
Party_disapproval
Party_discipline
Party_Doll
Party_drug
Party_elders
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Party_for_Bosnia_and_Hercegovina
Party_for_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
Party_for_Democracy
Party_for_Democracy_and_Development_through_Unity
Party_for_Democracy_and_Progress/Socialist_Party
Party_for_Democratic_Prosperity
Party_for_Democratic_Renewal
Party_for_Democratic_Socialism_(India)
Party_for_Freedom_and_Progress
Party_for_Justice,_Action_and_Progress
Party_for_National_Unity_and_Solidarity
Party_for_People's_Government
Party_for_Philippine_Progress
Party_for_Progress_and_Citizenship
Party_for_Rebuilding_of_National_Order
Party_for_Socialism_and_Liberation
Party_for_Socialist_Power
Party_for_Telugu_Land
Party_for_the_Animals
Party_for_the_Commonwealth_of_Canada
Party_for_the_Commonwealth_of_Canada
Party_for_the_Government_of_the_People
Party_for_the_Restoration_of_Monarchy_and_Dialogue_in_Burundi
Party_for_the_Restructured_Antilles
Party_for_the_transformation_of_Honduras
Party_game
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Party_Game_(television_series)
Party_Gaming
Party_Girl
Party_in_the_Park
Party_kid
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Party_New_Limburg
Party_of_Albanian_National_Union
Party_of_Algerian_Renewal
Party_of_Bible-abiding_Christians
Party_of_bible-abiding_christians
Party_of_Buenos_Aires_Unity
Party_of_Christian-Popular_Union
Party_of_Christian-Popular_Union
Party_of_Citizens_Who_Have_Decided_to_Think_for_Themselves_and_Be_Their_Own_Politicians
Party_of_Citizens_Who_Have_Decided_to_Think_for_Themselves_and_Be_Their_Own_politicians
Party_of_Communists_of_Albania
Party_of_Communists_of_Belarus
Party_of_Communists_of_Kyrgyzstan
Party_of_Communists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova
Party_of_Communist_Unification_in_the_Canaries
Party_of_Croatian_Renaissance
Party_of_Democratic_Action
Party_of_Democratic_Action_(Kosovo)
Party_of_Democratic_Action_of_Croatia
Party_of_Democratic_Kampuchea
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Party_of_Democratic_Socialism
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Party_of_Democratic_Socialism_(India)
Party_of_Democrats
Party_of_European_Liberal_Democrats
Party_of_European_Socialists
Party_Of_Five
Party_of_Five
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Party_of_German-speaking_Belgians
Party_of_God_(Lebanon)
Party_of_God_(Mauritius)
Party_of_Great_Romania
Party_of_Greens_of_Ukraine
Party_of_Independence_and_Work
Party_of_Independent_Social_Democrats
Party_of_Industrialists_and_Entrepreneurs_of_Ukraine
Party_of_Italian_Communists
Party_of_Labor_of_Albania
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Party_of_Labour_and_Progress_of_Melilla
Party_of_Labour_Basel_(founded_in_1944)
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Party_of_Liberal_Democrats
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Party_of_National_Conciliation
Party_of_National_Mobilization
Party_of_National_Unity
Party_of_National_Unity_(Albania)
Party_of_National_Unity_(Cyprus)
Party_of_National_Unity_(Czechoslovakia)
Party_of_National_Unity_(Czechoslovakia)
Party_of_One
Party_of_People's_Unity
Party_of_Private_Property
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Party_of_Regions
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Party_of_Russia's_Rebirth
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Party_of_Serbian_Unity
Party_of_Socialists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova
Party_of_Socialist_Unionists
Party_of_Social_Democracy_in_Romania
Party_of_the_Alliance_of_Youth,_Workers_and_Farmers_of_Angola
Party_of_the_Alliance_of_Youth,_Workers_and_Farmers_of_Angola
Party_of_the_Brazilian_Democratic_Movement
Party_of_the_Brazilian_Social_Democracy
Party_of_the_Brazilian_Social_Democracy
Party_of_the_Brazilian_Social_Democracy_(PSDB)
Party_of_the_Democratic_Left
Party_of_the_Democratic_Left_(Slovakia)
Party_of_the_Democratic_Revolution
Party_of_the_European_Left
Party_of_the_first_part
Party_of_the_Hope_of_the_Province_of_Buenos_Aires
Party_of_the_Hungarian_Coalition
Party_of_the_Liberal_Front
Party_of_the_Liberal_Front_(Brazil)
Party_of_the_Masses_of_Iran
Party_of_the_Mexican_Revolution
Party_of_the_Muslim_Brotherhood
Party_of_the_Nation's_Retirees
Party_of_the_Reconstruction_of_the_National_Order
Party_of_the_second_part
Party_of_the_Socio-Economic_Justice_of_Moldova
Party_of_the_United_Struggle_for_Africans_in_Angola
Party_of_the_Workers
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Party_of_the_Working_Class's_Cause
Party_of_Wales
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