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cottage
[kot-ij]
noun
a small house, usually of only one story.
a small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort, etc., owned or rented as a vacation home.
one of a group of small, separate houses, as for patients at a hospital, guests at a hotel, or students at a boarding school.
cottage
/ ˈɒɪ /
noun
a small simple house, esp in a rural area
a small house in the country or at a resort, used for holiday purposes
one of several housing units, as at a hospital, for accommodating people in groups
slanga public lavatory
Other Word Forms
- cottaged adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cottage1
Example Sentences
"I live in a very old Guernsey cottage, which is stone and it's freezing in there in the winter, and I only run one radiator."
On the edge of Buckingham in southern England, the quiet and leafy village of Maids Moreton, dotted with thatched cottages, is at the heart of a dilemma.
Even her stepson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., doesn’t see her when he spends an occasional week in the guest cottage.
Having coffee at a Santa Monica cafe, we were near a cottage where Cage had lived in the early 1930s, when he found his first music job.
With potable water in short supply, neither the cafe nor the motel nor its six roadside cottages have been open since the 1980s.
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