housewarming

See also: house-warming and house warming

English

Alternative forms

• house warming
• house-warming

Etymology

house +‎ warming

Pronunciation

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Noun

housewarming (plural housewarmings)

1. (idiomatic) A party to celebrate moving into a new home.

   Synonym: (archaic) house-heating

   • 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:

     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.

2. The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home.

   a housewarming gift

   • 2004, Jacob M Appel, “Gadney's Immunity”, in Southwest Review, volume 89, number 4, page 580:

     They had their first argument on the evening Gadney moved in, their housewarming spat, he later called it.

   • 2011, John Kinsella, The Offering:

     Fortunately, Dave had left them a packet of rollie tobacco and papers for a housewarming

Antonyms

• house cooling party

Translations

party

• Belarusian: навасе́лле n (navasjéllje)
• Burmese: အိမ်တက်မင်္ဂလာ (my) (imtakmangga.la)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喬遷宴／乔迁宴 (qiáoqiānyàn), 喬遷之喜／乔迁之喜 (zh) (qiáoqiānzhīxǐ)

• Czech: kolaudace f
• Dutch: instuif (nl) m, huiswarming (nl) f
• Estonian: soolaleib, soolaleivapidu
• Finnish: tupaantuliaiset (fi) pl; tuparit (fi) pl (colloquial)
• French: pendaison de crémaillère (fr) f
• German: Einweihungsparty (de) f
• Hindi: नाँगल (nāṅgal)
• Hungarian: lakásavató, házavató (hu), lakásszentelő (hu), házszentelő
• Japanese: 新築祝い (しんちくいわい, shinchikuiwai)
• Korean: 집들이 (ko) (jipdeuri)
• Maori: kawanga whare
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innvielsesfest (no) m

• Persian: ولیمه (fa) (valime)
• Polish: parapetówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: festa de inauguração (da casa nova) f
• Russian: новосе́лье (ru) n (novosélʹje)
• Swedish: inflyttningsfest (sv) c
• Thai: ขึ้นบ้านใหม่, งานขึ้นบ้านใหม่
• Turkish: yeni eve taşınma partisi
• Ukrainian: новосі́лля (uk) n (novosíllja)
• Vietnamese: ăn tân gia, lễ tân gia, tân gia

act

• Finnish: tupaantuliainen (especially a housewarming gift)
• Hungarian: lakásavatás (hu), házavatás (hu), lakásszentelés (hu), házszentelés

See also

• infare