house-raising

1. 1.

   construction by a group of neighbors

   Broaderconstruction

Questions about house-raising

What does house-raising mean?

house-raising means "construction by a group of neighbors".

How many syllables are in house-raising?

house-raising has 4 syllables and divides as hou-se--rai-sing under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is house-raising a common word?

house-raising is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.