ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione [It], soiree, matin_ee;
evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party;
kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_ee [Fr.], dish of tea, ridotto † , rout † ; housewarming; ball,
festival &c; smoker, smoker-party; sociable [U.S.], stag party, hen party, tamasha † ; teaparty,
tea-fight [Slang].
(amusement) 840; the feast of reason and the flow of soul [Pope].
birthday party [parties for specific occasions], Christmas party, New Year's Eve party,
Thanksgiving Day Dinner; bonenkai [Jap.]; wedding reception.
visiting; round of visits; call, morning call; interview &c (conversation) 588;
assignation; tryst, trysting place; appointment.
club &c (association) 712.
V. be sociable &c adj.; know; be acquainted &c adj.; associate with, sort with, keep
company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same trencher, club together, consort,
bear one company, join; make acquaintance with &c (friendship) 888; make advances,
fraternize, embrace.
be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack
a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out [U.S.].
visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card;
drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.
entertain; give a party &c n.; be at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house,
do the honors; receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception &c n.. to
kill the fatted calf.
Adj. sociable, companionable, clubbable, conversable † , cosy, cosey † , chatty,
conversational; homiletical.
convivial; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, hospitable.
welcome, welcome as the roses in May; f=eted, entertained.
free and easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms, acquainted.
social, neighborly; international; gregarious.
Adv. en famille [Fr.], in the family circle; sans fa [Fr.]; arm in arm.
Phr. a crowd is not company [Bacon]; be bright and jovial among your guests tonight
[Macbeth]; his worth is warrant for his welcome [Two Gentlemen]; let's be red with
mirth [Winter's Tale]; welcome the coming speed the parting guest [Pope].
893. Seclusion. Exclusion -- N. seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess;
snugness &c adj.; delitescence † ; rustication, rus in urbe [Lat.]; solitude; solitariness &c
(singleness) 87; isolation; loneliness &c adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary
exile; aloofness.
cell, hermitage; convent &c 1000; sanctum sanctorum [Lat.].
depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness &c (unproductive) 169; howling
wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum.
exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut
direct; dead cut.
inhospitality † , inhospitableness &c adj.; dissociability † ; domesticity, Darby and Joan.
recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret † , anchorite; Simon Stylites † ; troglodyte,
Timon of Athens † , Santon † , solitaire, ruralist † , disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic,
Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic † ; wastrel, foundling, wilding † .