housewarming

26 3.2

A party to celebrate moving into a new home and welcome friends

noun
/ˈhaʊsˌwɜrmɪŋ/

: fiesta de inauguración de la casa

We should have a housewarming party to celebrate our new home.

Examples

Paprika sounds like a great housewarming gift, but there are so many kinds to choose from!

Blog text (20)
Hey, I guess I'm gonna see you at the housewarming party next weekend.

Hall Pass (2011)
Something to buy you as a housewarming gift.

Home Again (2017)
I got you a little housewarming gift.

Vice (2018)
Looks like your housewarming gift is working.

Don't Let Her In (2021)
We should have a housewarming party.

Old (2021)
I see you got my housewarming gift.

The Last Kung Fu Monk (2010)
We brought you this little housewarming gift.

Duplex (2003)
This is our housewarming party.

Partners (1982)
Oupa planned a housewarming for everyone from the Foundation.

Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

open house

vshousewarming

35 2.7

An event when people are invited to visit and feel welcome

is a private celebration welcoming friends and family after moving

housewarming party

vshousewarming

5 1.7

A party to celebrate moving into a new home with friends and family

is the shorter form of the same celebration term

Compounds

housewarming party

5 1.7

A party to celebrate moving into a new home with friends and family

Surface Forms

housewarming singular

housewarmings plural

Morphology

housewarming = house + warm (semi-transparent) = house + warm + ing

The components 'house' + 'warm' + '-ing' are form-semantic transparent, but the conventionalized meaning 'a party to celebrate moving into a new home' is idiomatic and not directly inferable from 'warming the house'.

Etymology

The word housewarming comes from the simple idea of making a new house warm, that is 'to heat' it, because long ago people lit a fire or brought wood and friends would come to help. So a housewarming today is a party to welcome people into your new home and make it feel warm and lived in.