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

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cottager

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

Even the village knows it to its cost; and the poor cottager, in his leaky shed at three shillings a week, is too often encompassed by its toils.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

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 Flora Klickmann

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

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