Word.ws English Dictionary

political party

political party noun: a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power through representation in government.

Noun

political party (plural political parties)

  1. A political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power through representation in government.
    • I told the Governors that I had never questioned the capacity or the sincerity or the ability of a man because he belonged to a different political party. No party had an overriding claim to patriotism. The times, I said, demanded that we put away our differences and close ranks in a determined...1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28
    Synonyms:
    party

political party meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

political party in Hindi

political organization
दल dal, पार्टी pārṭī, पक्ष pakṣ, राजनीतिक दल rājnītik dal, हिज़्ब hizb

political party in Tamil

political organization
கட்சி kaṭci, அரசியல் கட்சி araciyal kaṭci

political party in Marathi

political organization
पक्ष pakṣa, राजकीय पक्ष rājkīy pakṣa, पार्टी pārṭī

political party in Urdu

political organization
جَماعَت jamā'at, پارْٹی pārṭī, حِزْب hizb, دَل dal, سِیاسی جَماعَت siyāsī jamā'at
More languagesFewer languages
political party in Bengali
দল dol, পার্টি parṭi, রাজনৈতিক দল rajnōitik dol
political party in Telugu
పార్టీ pārṭī, రాజకీయ పార్టీ rājakīya pārṭī
political party in Malayalam
പാർട്ടി pāṟṭṭi, രാഷ്ട്രീയ പാർട്ടി rāṣṭrīya pāṟṭṭi
political party in Kannada
ಪಕ್ಷ pakṣa, ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಪಕ್ಷ rājakīya pakṣa
political party in Punjabi
ਪਾਰਟੀ pārṭī, ਸਿਆਸੀ ਦਲ siāsī dal
political party in Gujarati
પાર્ટી pārṭī
political party in Odia
ପାର୍ଟୀ pārṭi
political party in Sanskrit
पक्ष pakṣa
political party in Sinhala
පක්ෂය pakṣaya, පාටිය pāṭiya
political party in Assamese
পাৰ্টি parti
political party in Nepali
पार्टी pārṭī, दल dal, राजनीतिक दल rājanītik dal
political party in Pashto
حزب hezb, ګوند gwand
political party in Tagalog
lapian, partido, partidong pampolitika
political party in Arabic
حِزْب ḥizb, حِزْب سِيَاسِيّ ḥizb siyāsiyy
political party in Malay
parti, parti politik
political party in Indonesian
partai, partai politik
political party in Thai
พรรคการเมือง pák-gaan-mʉʉang, พรรค pák, คณะ ká-ná
political party in Vietnamese
chánh đảng, đảng
political party in Myanmar
ပါတီ pati, နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီ nuingngam-re:pati

Synonyms of political party

Forms of political party

pluralpolitical parties

Questions about political party

What does political party mean?
Political party means a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power through representation in government.
What is political party in Hindi?
Political party in Hindi is दल (dal), पार्टी (pārṭī), पक्ष (pakṣ). See Political party meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is political party?
Political party is a noun.
What is the plural of political party?
The plural of political party is political parties.

Words near political party in the dictionary

  1. political map
  2. political marketing
  3. political opposition
  4. political oppositions
  5. political parties
  6. political party
  7. political price fixing
  8. political prisoner
  9. political prisoners
  10. political regime
  11. political regimes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: political party (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-uk-political party.ogg.

Cite this entry: “political party.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/political_party. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.