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house-warming

house-warming is the alternative spelling of housewarming.

Meaning of housewarming

Noun

housewarming (plural housewarmings)

  1. (idiomatic) A party to celebrate moving into a new home.
    • In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    house-heating
  2. The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home.
    • a housewarming gift

Forms of house-warming

pluralhouse-warmings

Questions about house-warming

What is house-warming the alternative spelling of?
House-warming is the alternative spelling of housewarming.

Words near house-warming in the dictionary

  1. house-trained
  2. house-training
  3. house-trains
  4. house-wall
  5. house-walls
  6. house-warming
  7. house-warmings
  8. house-wife
  9. house-wives
  10. Houseal
  11. Houseals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: house-warming (page history and authors); housewarming (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.

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