cottage
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.
Origin of cottage
1Other words from cottage
- cottaged, adjective
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How to use cottage in a sentence
In Bedminster this spring, the records show, Trump’s club charged the Secret Service more than $21,800 to rent a cottage and other rooms while the club was closed and otherwise off-limits to guests.
Election live updates: Trump returns to Wisconsin; Biden to face live audience at town hall | Colby Itkowitz, Felicia Sonmez, John Wagner | September 17, 2020 | Washington PostChico-San’s ads proposed trading bread for rice cakes and using the low-calorie rice saucers as a surface to support jelly, cottage cheese, fruit, and other toppings.
The Rise and Fall of the Rice Cake, America’s One-Time Favorite Health Snack | Brenna Houck | September 17, 2020 | EaterThe final stop is Lewa House, a cluster of cottages on the 61,000-acre Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.
Matheson was evicted along with her 90-year-old mother, who was living in a guest cottage.
The Mystery House: How a Suspicious Multimillion Dollar Real Estate Deal Is Connected to California’s Deadliest Fire | by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation | August 26, 2020 | ProPublicaI have a summer house by the sea, a wooden cottage with no heat.
Finally, as the sun was about to set, she came upon a little cottage that belonged to seven dwarfs.
In New Brothers Grimm 'Snow White', The Prince Doesn't Save Her | The Brothers Grimm | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen Little Snow White awoke, they asked her who she was and how she had managed to come to their cottage.
In New Brothers Grimm 'Snow White', The Prince Doesn't Save Her | The Brothers Grimm | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNevertheless, a cottage industry has grown up around the case.
How Bill Simmons and company have turned NFL indignation into a cozy little cottage industry.
Forget the Wife Beating—Are You Ready for Some Football? | Steve Almond | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf ESPN is a sleek bachelor pad, ESPNW is the cottage next door filled with Activia and ultra-soft toilet paper.
Madame Ratignolle, when they had regained her cottage, went in to take the hour's rest which she considered helpful.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinShe rose with a smile as Lady Victoria emerged from the cottage at the upper end of the village.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThey had almost reached the sawyer's cottage, when a black animal ran out towards them.
The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1 | VariousThe entire scene had vanished, vanished like smoke over the roof of a cottage when the wind blows.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodDr. Stanmore came down the flagged path from the smith's cottage, pulling on his gloves.
Uncanny Tales | Various
British Dictionary definitions for cottage
/ (ˈkɒtɪdʒ) /
a small simple house, esp in a rural area
US and Canadian a small house in the country or at a resort, used for holiday purposes
US one of several housing units, as at a hospital, for accommodating people in groups
slang a public lavatory
Origin of cottage
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