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

/ ˈkɒtɪdʒ /

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. slang,  a public lavatory

Other Word Forms

• cottaged adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of cottage¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cottage¹

C14: from _cot ²

Example Sentences

It begins in a country parsonage, moves through social insecurity to final productive years in a cottage Austen shared with a beloved sister, mother and close friend.

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The family lived in a cottage nearby and befriended members of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who stayed at the inn for spring training during World War II.

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Inspired by cinema setpieces and centuries-old European cottages, architects designed playful homes with turrets and gables on the outside and nooks and crannies on the inside.

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Eventually the children reached the bakehouse, a stone cottage that housed a massive brick oven with a double-width chimney.

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From the outside, it looked like a gingerbread cottage from a storybook, much to the delight of the littlest Swanburne girls.

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Related Words

• bungalow 
• cabin 
• chalet 
• home 
• hut 
• lean-to 
• lodge 
• ranch 
• shack 
• shanty