cottager

[ kot-i-jer ]

/ ˈkɒt ɪ dʒər /

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noun

a person who lives in a cottage.

Also cotter, cot·ti·er

[kot-ee-er] /ˈkɒt i ər/. British. a rural worker; a laborer on a farm or in a small village.

a person having a private house at a vacation resort.

RELATED WORDS

provincial, rustic, squire

Nearby words

cottage pie, cottage pudding, cottage roll, cottage tulip, cottage window, cottager, cottaging, cottbus, cotte's operation, cotter, cotter pin

Origin of cottager

First recorded in 1540–50; cottage + -er¹

Related forms

non·cot·tag·er, noun

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Examples from the Web for cottager

After that the cottager's children had to be seen, and those young persons looked at the basket with interest.
The Romance of the Coast|James Runciman
What would be said in England if a Tory landlord evicted a cottager for working for a Radical farmer?
Is Ulster Right?|Anonymous
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.
The Yeoman Adventurer|George W. Gough
As naturally the services of the bordarius or cottager did not include ploughing, but were limited to smaller services.
The English Village Community|Frederic Seebohm

My “cottager” will easily get his cow, and a young cow too, for less than the 5l.
Rural Rides|William Cobbett

British Dictionary definitions for cottager

cottager

/ (ˈkɒtɪdʒə) /

noun

a person who lives in a cottage

a rural labourer

mainly Canadian a person holidaying in a cottage, esp an owner and seasonal resident of a cottage in a resort area

history another name for cotter 2

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