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

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Etymology

Origin of cottager

First recorded in 1540–50; cottage + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cottager

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

Allot′ment, the act of allotting: part or share allotted: a portion of a field assigned to a cottager to labour for himself.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

In dry seasons, swine could pick up some feed there, and, now and then, a venturesome cottager turned out a cow, keeping watch lest it should be bogged.

From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton

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 Henryk Sienkiewicz

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