HOUSEWARMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does housewarming mean? 

• HOUSEWARMING (noun)
  The noun HOUSEWARMING has 1 sense:

1. a party of people assembled to celebrate moving into a new home

  Familiarity information: HOUSEWARMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSEWARMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A party of people assembled to celebrate moving into a new home

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("housewarming" is a kind of...):

party (a group of people gathered together for pleasure)

 Context examples 

We held a housewarming in my hut the night it was roofed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Following the housewarming, which was accomplished by means of seal-oil and a wick made from cotton calking, came the hunting for our winter’s meat and the building of the second hut.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)