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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of cottager

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

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The old blind cottager, was one who trusted in the Lord, and believed that he did all things well.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.

Why is it that the amateur so often describes the cottager in this "poor but pious" strain?

From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Klickmann, Flora

On the morrow, the neighbourhood was thrown into a state of alarm by a cottager having found poor Toby Lackpenny in a swoon upon his shop-board.

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas

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