Definitions for cottageˈkɒt ɪdʒ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

cot•tageˈkɒt ɪdʒ(n.)

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

  2. a small, modest vacation house, as at a lake or mountain resort.

  3. one of a group of small, separate houses, as for patients at a hospital.

Origin of cottage:

1350–1400; ME cotage. See cot2, -age ; cf. ML cotagium, appar. < AF

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bungalow, cottage(noun)

    a small house with a single story

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. cottage(noun)ˈkɒt ɪdʒ

    a small house in the country

Wiktionary

  1. cottage(Noun)

    A small house; a cot; a hut.

  2. cottage(Noun)

    A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.

  3. cottage(Verb)

    Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

  4. cottage(Verb)

    To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.

  5. Origin: from cot 'cot, cottage' and -age 'surrounding property', from *kutan (compare kot, kūz 'execution pit'), from Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta (compare Avestan kata 'chamber').

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cottage(noun)

    a small house; a cot; a hut


Translations for cottage

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

cottage(noun)

a small house, especially in the country or in a village

a holiday cottage in Devon.

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