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 Words From

• cottaged 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

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.

From Washington Post

Chico-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.

From Eater

The final stop is Lewa House, a cluster of cottages on the 61,000-acre Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.

From Outside Online

Matheson was evicted along with her 90-year-old mother, who was living in a guest cottage.

From ProPublica

I have a summer house by the sea, a wooden cottage with no heat.

From MIT Technology Review

Finally, as the sun was about to set, she came upon a little cottage that belonged to seven dwarfs.

From The Daily Beast

When Little Snow White awoke, they asked her who she was and how she had managed to come to their cottage.

From The Daily Beast

Nevertheless, a cottage industry has grown up around the case.

From The Daily Beast

How Bill Simmons and company have turned NFL indignation into a cozy little cottage industry.

From The Daily Beast

If ESPN is a sleek bachelor pad, ESPNW is the cottage next door filled with Activia and ultra-soft toilet paper.

From The Daily Beast

Madame Ratignolle, when they had regained her cottage, went in to take the hour's rest which she considered helpful.

From Project Gutenberg

She rose with a smile as Lady Victoria emerged from the cottage at the upper end of the village.

From Project Gutenberg

They had almost reached the sawyer's cottage, when a black animal ran out towards them.

From Project Gutenberg

The entire scene had vanished, vanished like smoke over the roof of a cottage when the wind blows.

From Project Gutenberg

Dr. Stanmore came down the flagged path from the smith's cottage, pulling on his gloves.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bungalow
• cabin
• chalet
• home
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