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- [hous-wawr-ming]
- /ˈhaʊsˌwɔr mɪŋ/
- /ˈhaʊˌswɑmɪŋ/
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- [hous-wawr-ming]
- /ˈhaʊsˌwɔr mɪŋ/
Definitions of housewarming word
- noun housewarming a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home. 1
- noun housewarming A party celebrating a move to a new home. 1
- noun housewarming party to celebrate new home 1
- countable noun housewarming A housewarming is a party that you give for friends when you have just moved to a new house. 0
- noun housewarming a party given by or for someone moving into a new home 0
Information block about the term
Origin of housewarming
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 Housewarming
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
housewarming 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".
housewarming usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for housewarming
noun housewarming
- at-home — Also, at home. a reception of visitors at certain hours at one's home.
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