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

To demonstrate the risks of house parties, the health department posted a video highlighting a recent outbreak from a New Year’s Eve party attended by 13 people.

From Washington Post

This is a far more basic alternative to the platforms above, but it resembles an IRL house party so closely that you even have to let people into the virtual house when they ring the doorbell.

From Popular-Science

This past week, Apple banned the app Vybe Together, which had allowed people to locate “secret” indoor house parties in their area, sometimes including those held in violation of state guidelines.

From TechCrunch

I was watching Lovers Rock, one of the installments of Small Axe, and there’s a scene at a house party where they pull the music out and everybody is still dancing and singing together.

From Vox

Contact-tracing continues to show that house parties and family gatherings are the most common sources for contracting the virus, he said.

From Washington Post

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg