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wine and dine
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entertain in style |
| Synonyms: | cook for, feast, feed, fete, have to dinner, mess, regale |
| Main Entry: | bacchanal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | merrymaking |
| Synonyms: | carnival, debauch, feast, frolic, orgy, party, reveler |
| Main Entry: | soiree |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | party |
| Synonyms: | affair, amusement, at-home, ball, banquet, barbecue, bash*, blowout, carousal, carousing, celebration, cocktails, coffee klatch, coming-out, dinner, diversion*, do*, entertainment, feast, festive occasion, festivity, fete, fun, function, gala, get-together, luncheon, movable feast, occasion, orgy, prom, reception, riot, shindig*, social, splurge, spree*, tea |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | entertainment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Zugzwang, aleiptic, amused, amusing, closed, corybantic, diverting, entertaining, espiègle, festal, festive, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughable, ludibrious, ludibund, lusory, mute, piscatory, playful, pleasant, psyllic, recreative, rompish, scacchic, sphairistic, sporting, toxophilite, venatic, warrantable, wicketed, witty
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| Concept: | Party. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-nouns
party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan, [more]; team; tong., community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity; familistere, familistery; brotherhood, sisterhood., knot, gang, clique, ring, circle; coterie, club, casino; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall [U.S.]., corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine [U.S.], trust., society, association; institute, institution; union; trades union; league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination; Turnverein; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue; freemasonry; party spirit (cooperation)., Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar; Ku Klux Klan, KKK; Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs, staff; dramatis personae.
-verbs
unite, join; club together (cooperate); cement a party, form a party; associate (assemble); enleague, federalize, go cahoots.
-adjectives
in league, in partnership, in alliance, in cahoots., bonded together, banded together, linked (joined) [more] together; embattled; confederated, federative, joint.
-adverbs
hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.
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