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

That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every cottager had his flock of sheep, his buffaloes and horses, secreted near the rivers, From time to time appeared also very large herds of buffaloes, half wild, and followed by a number of herdsmen.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Visit the poorest and humblest cottager, who knows nothing of theology, and cannot even repeat the creed.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles

The local parliament in the parish hall may sometimes be unattended by a single cottager.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)