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cottage

[kot-ij]

noun

  1. a small house, usually of only one story.

  2. a small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort, etc., owned or rented as a vacation home.

  3. 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

  1. a small simple house, esp in a rural area

  2. a small house in the country or at a resort, used for holiday purposes

  3. one of several housing units, as at a hospital, for accommodating people in groups

  4. slanga public lavatory

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • cottaged adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cottage1

1350–1400; Middle English cotage. See cot 2, -age; compare Medieval Latin cotagium, apparently < Anglo-French
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cottage1

C14: from cot ²
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"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."

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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.

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Even her stepson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., doesn’t see her when he spends an occasional week in the guest cottage.

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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.

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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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