cottager

American  

[kot-i-jer] / ˈkɒt ɪ dʒər /

noun

1. a person who lives in a cottage.

2. British. Also cottier a rural worker; a laborer on a farm or in a small village.

3. a person having a private house at a vacation resort.

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cottager British  

/ 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. history another name for cotter 2

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Other Word Forms

• noncottager noun

Etymology

Origin of cottager

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

Example Sentences

“It is a village school: your scholars will be only poor girls—cottagers’ children—at the best, farmers’ daughters.

From Literature

The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathised in their joys.

From Literature

Revolutionary leader Samuel Adams put it well: “The cottager may beget a wise son; the noble, a fool. The one is capable of great improvement; the other, not.”

From Washington Post

The leadership simply doesn’t know how it will exist without the cottagers tithing them millions.

From Washington Post

It would now have been evident to both men that the object that they were rapidly closing in on was not some cottager’s wayward laundry but rather a human body—but whose body?

From Salon