house party

Or houseparty

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

Wisdom was attacked by several masked men who stole his designer watch after he left a house party in the early hours of the morning.

From BBC

Spontaneously, I’d joined a group of old friends on their way to a house party in Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times

We go somewhere, maybe a crowded house party or a flea market, and someone strikes up a conversation.

From Los Angeles Times

On June 1, a high school house party in Hickory, North Carolina, ended in gunfire, killing one and injuring eleven others — many of them students.

From Salon

I walked away from the brief plea, and rudimentary roadmap, for a renaissance of house parties that the queer experience was not part of her understanding of American social life.

From Salon