cottager

[ kot-i-jer ]

noun

1. a person who lives in a cottage.
2. Also cot·ti·er [] British. a rural worker; a laborer on a farm or in a small village.
3. a person having a private house at a vacation resort.

cottager

/ ˈkɒtɪdʒə /

noun

1. a person who lives in a cottage
2. a rural labourer
3. a person holidaying in a cottage, esp an owner and seasonal resident of a cottage in a resort area
4. See cotter
   history another name for cotter 2

Other Words From

• non·cottag·er noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of cottager¹

First recorded in 1540–50; cottage + -er ¹

Example Sentences

These young men went out into the villages, borrowed a chair of a cottager, and spoke from it at open-air meetings.

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Every cottager maintained his own light or combination of lights to facilitate identification by approaching visitors.

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What would be said in England if a Tory landlord evicted a cottager for working for a Radical farmer?

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An English cottager now possesses what would once have been luxuries.

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The sergeant led the way up to it, turned the cottager and his family out of it into a shed, and set two men without as sentries.

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