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house-warming

house-warm
H h

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [noun, adjective hous wawrm]
    • /noun, adjective haʊs wɔrm/
    • /haʊs ˈwɔː.mɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [noun, adjective hous wawrm]
    • /noun, adjective haʊs wɔrm/

Definitions of house-warming word

  • noun house-warming a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home. 1
  • noun house-warming a party given after moving into a new home 0
  • noun house-warming (as modifier) 0
  • noun house-warming Alternative spelling of housewarming. 0
See all 4 definitions of house-warming

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Origin of house-warming

First appearance:

before 1570
One of the 33% oldest English words
First recorded in 1570-80; house + warm + -ing1

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Parts of speech for House-warming

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of House-warming

house-warming popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 53% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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