house party

or houseparty

noun

1. the entertainment of guests for one or more nights at one's home, a fraternity or sorority house, etc.
2. the guests at such an affair or party:

   The house party goes sailing today.

house party

noun

1. a party, usually in a country house, at which guests are invited to stay for several days
2. the guests who are invited

Word History and Origins

Origin of house party¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

He talks about the time he lost his virginity to a woman—a fan of Doogie Howser—at a house party in New Mexico.

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Two officers, their badge numbers covered by black tape, watch as guests disperse from a house party they have recently disrupted.

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He was at a house party when a good-looking woman came out of the bathroom and told him about the cocaine she was doing.

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One day, when preparing to cook for a house party, she was on her knees, cleaning the floor.

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To cutting my hair off, to going to a house party, to just being completely free ... to make out with myself.

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There were assembled the house-party only, Devar and I being the guests of the evening.

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"I hope you don't intend to tell the house party that," remarked Sylvia.

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There was a house-party, and one evening neither Porteous nor my mother came down to dinner.

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It rained steadily for three days; then the sunshine gleamed and Steve's house-party broke up.

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Knight had come home late, just in time to dress, and she had not thought to speak of the house party.

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