house party
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1.9
- noun
- /ˈhaʊs ˈpɑrti/
- Informal
:
fiesta en casa
- The house party lasted until dawn, with everyone laughing and dancing together.
- weekend house party
- throw a house party
- attending a house party
My tier one goes to high school house parties, dude.
- My tier one goes to high school house parties, dude.
- Being back on the dance floor, dancing to Lady Gaga with you at a house party that you're crashing.
- I had I hung out with groups of people who are much, much older than me doing worse things at house parties.
- But I went to a house party and.
- And there was just house party below me going boom, boom, boom all night.
- Antioch was a place where a lot of house parties.
- Ah, but they had a a part of it where it's like a big, huge house party in the Hollywood Hills.
- OK, so we've just gone there and just moved to everything we saw in the house party.
Examples
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I'm very good at planning house parties.
Fiction book (1994) -
I had no one to spend it with and no house party to attend!
Blog text (13) -
You really want a repeat of the last house party?
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We met at a house party in Norfolk.
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Jack, look, next weekend I'm having a house party.
Fiction book (1998) -
My first glass of champagne was a part of a friend's New Year's house party.
Blog text (2) -
They meet at a house party in the country, and things soon spin out of control.
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They find out there's a house party going on tonight.
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Two San Jose officers were injured at a house party on Patt Avenue, and 42 were arrested.
Blog text (9) -
I saw the mix most vividly one night at a house party in a hilltop neighborhood near Shuri Castle.
Blog text (31)
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Morphology
The meaning 'a party held at someone's home' is directly and compositionally built from 'house' (a home/building) + 'party' (a social gathering), so a learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. The construction is a straightforward noun+noun combination and is common cross-linguistically, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner (the minor nuance about guests staying overnight does not affect overall transparency).
Etymology
House party shows a clear picture: a house full of friends having a party, with music and people in every room. That's why 'house party' means 'a party at someone's home', and often suggests guests may stay overnight.