Party vs. Fete — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Party and Fete
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Party
A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will typically feature food and beverages, and often music and dancing or other forms of entertainment.
Fete
A public function, typically held outdoors and organized to raise funds for a charity, including entertainment and the sale of goods and refreshments
A church fete
Party
A social gathering especially for pleasure or amusement
A birthday party.
Fete
Honour or entertain (someone) lavishly
She was an instant celebrity, feted by the media
Party
A group of people who have gathered to participate in an activity
A search party.
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Fete
A festival or feast.
Party
A group of soldiers selected for a duty or mission
A raiding party.
Fete
An elaborate, often outdoor entertainment.
Party
An established political group organized to promote and support its principles and candidates for public office.
Fete
An elaborate party.
Party
A person or group involved in an enterprise; a participant or accessory
I refuse to be a party to your silly scheme.
Fete
To celebrate or honor with a festival, a feast, or an elaborate entertainment.
Party
(Law) A person or entity that participates in a transaction, makes a contract, or is involved in a lawsuit as a litigant.
Fete
To pay honor to.
Party
A subscriber to a telephone party line.
Fete
A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
Party
A person using a telephone.
Fete
A feast, celebration or carnival.
Party
A person
"And though Grainger was a spry old party, such steps couldn't be his" (Anthony Hyde).
Fete
To celebrate (a person).
Party
Of, relating to, or participating in an established political organization
Party members.
Party politics.
Fete
A feat.
Party
Suitable for use at a social gathering
Party dresses.
A party hat.
Fete
A festival.
Party
Characteristic of a pleasurable social gathering
A party atmosphere.
Fete
Feet.
Party
To celebrate or carouse at a party or similar gathering
That night we partied until dawn.
Fete
To feast; to honor with a festival.
Party
(legal) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.
Fete
An elaborate party (often outdoors)
Party
A person.
Fete
An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place);
A drama festival
Party
A person; an individual.
He is a queer party.
Fete
Have a celebration;
They were feting the patriarch of the family
After the exam, the students were celebrating
Party
With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.
I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour.
Party
A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
Party
Active player characters organized into a single group.
Party
(video games) A group of characters controlled by the player.
Party
(politics) A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.
The green party took 12% of the vote.
Party
(military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.
Party
A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose.
Party
A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.
I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday.
Party
A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.
We're expecting a large party from the London office.
Do you have a table available for a party of four?
Party
A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
Tupperware party
Lingerie party
Party
A small group of birds or mammals.
Party
(obsolete) A part or division.
Party
(intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
We partied until the early hours.
Party
To take recreational drugs.
Party
(intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
Party
To form a party (with).
If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.
Party
Of a fence or wall: shared by two properties and serving to divide them.
Party
Divided; in part.
Party
(heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
An escutcheon party per pale
Party
A part or portion.
Party
A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.
Win the noble Brutus to our party.
The peace both parties want is like to last.
Party
A part of a larger body of company; a detachment;
Party
A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.
Party
One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.
Party
The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.
The cause of both parties shall come before the judges.
Party
Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.
If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony.
Party
Cause; side; interest.
Have you nothing saidUpon this Party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?
Party
A person; as, he is a queer party.
Party
Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
Party
Partial; favoring one party; partisan.
I will be true judge, and not party.
Party
Partly.
Party
An organization to gain political power;
In 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level
Party
An occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment;
He planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day
Party
A band of people associated temporarily in some activity;
They organized a party to search for food
The company of cooks walked into the kitchen
Party
A group of people gathered together for pleasure;
She joined the party after dinner
Party
A person involved in legal proceedings;
The party of the first part
Party
Have or participate in a party;
The students were partying all night before the exam
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