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house warming

house warming is the alternative form 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 form of?
House warming is the alternative form 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 wine
  9. house wines
  10. house wren
  11. house wrens

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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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