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

Revolutionary leader Samuel Adams put it well: “The cottager may beget a wise son; the noble, a fool. The one is capable of great improvement; the other, not.”

From Washington Post

The leadership simply doesn’t know how it will exist without the cottagers tithing them millions.

From Washington Post

It would now have been evident to both men that the object that they were rapidly closing in on was not some cottager’s wayward laundry but rather a human body—but whose body?

From Salon

After two or three weeks of spoiled lettuces and nibbled cabbage plants, the cottager had lain in wait and shot him as he came through the potato patch at dawn.

From Literature

The nickname is a tribute to wealthy out-of-towners, called “cottagers,” who built mansions during the gilded age and employed the locals.

From Seattle Times