house·warm·ing

[hous-wawr-ming]
noun
a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.

Origin:
1570–80; house + warming

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housewarming

noun
a party of people assembled to celebrate moving into a new home 
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Housewarming is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
Example sentences
Some of the funds have been used to purchase housewarming baskets and gift cards.
Their stories finally mesh at a lavish housewarming party at which collective neuroses and lies are exposed.
When a housewarming party is a decade in the making, it has to be pretty spectacular to live up to the hype.
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