HOUSE-RAISING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does house-raising mean? 

• HOUSE-RAISING (noun)
  The noun HOUSE-RAISING has 1 sense:

1. construction by a group of neighbors

  Familiarity information: HOUSE-RAISING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSE-RAISING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Construction by a group of neighbors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("house-raising" is a kind of...):

building; construction (the act of constructing something)