Meaning & use
function party
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Meanings
nouncountable
A social gathering held before or after a formal event such as a wedding, conference, or awards ceremony.
Grammar: Countable: say 'a function party' or 'two function parties'.
Patterns
- a function party for someone
- hold a function party
- at a function party
The hotel hosts a function party for guests the night before the wedding.
We met most of the speakers at the function party on Friday evening.
She wore a simple dress to the function party after the ceremony.
nouncountable
A party whose main purpose is to mark an official or work-related occasion rather than to celebrate privately.
Grammar: Often used with 'annual' or 'company': an annual function party.
Patterns
- the company function party
- an annual function party
The company function party is held every December in the main hall.
He gave a short speech at the annual function party.
Word forms
| plural | function parties |
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Common combinations
- hold a function party
- They hold a function party for staff each spring.
- attend a function party
- About two hundred people attended the function party.
- annual function party
- The annual function party was moved to a bigger venue.
- at a function party
- I saw her at a function party last month.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
- function noun
- A formal social event or official occasion.
Commonly confused: function party or functionality?
function party vs functionality
'Functionality' means the range of things a system can do; it has nothing to do with parties or social events.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'function party' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Function party' means a social gathering tied to a formal occasion, so hiring a hall after an awards event fits. Option 2 confuses it with 'function' as a machine's purpose, and option 3 wrongly uses the noun as a verb.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “function party”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.