Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small, single-storied house, especially in the country.
- n. A small vacation house.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cot; a humble habitation, as of a farm-laborer or a European peasant.
- n. A small country residence or detached suburban house, adapted to a moderate scale of living.
- n. A temporary residence at a watering-place or a health- or pleasure-resort, often a large and costly structure.
- n. In old English law, the service to which a cotset or cotter was bound.
- n. In Australia, a dwelling without up-stairs rooms; a house in which all the rooms are on the ground floor: as, a weather-board cottage with twelve rooms.
Wiktionary
- n. A small house; a cot; a hut.
- n. A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
- n. UK, slang, dated A public toilet.
- v. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
- v. intransitive, UK, slang Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small house; a cot; a hut.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small house with a single story
Etymologies
- Anglo-Norman, from Old English cot 'cot, cottage' and -age 'surrounding property', from Proto-Germanic *kutan (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz 'execution pit'), from Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta (compare Avestan kata 'chamber'). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English cotage, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin cotāgium, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He's also writing lots of magazine articles, updating his website, publishing every issue of The Realist online and, in his spare time, maintaining what he calls his "cottage industry"-- peddling a digitally colored edition of the infamous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy" parody, created by Mad magazine artist Wally Wood and first published in 1967 as a centerspread in The Realist.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Sigman: Satirist Paul Krassner Turning 80, Going Strong
“When her cottage is attacked the following night, Coyle leads her into the forest, away from civilization.”
“Rather than feel like an empty or unfilled space, the dream of the cottage is a warm beacon.”
“A Katrina cottage is a small, permanent house designed as an alternative to the government trailers where many residents are still living.”
“Also, if you do buy on the Gulf, make sure first that your cottage is at least a couple of hundred yards back from the tide's high water mark, or it may be destroyed by another storm of that ferocity.”
“Every bed in the house was engaged — the people of the house, however, provided me a bed at a place which they called the cottage, on the side of”
“So they went and stayed in what he called a cottage but what Skylar would have called a mansion on "the Sandringham estate" (it took her a while to work that one out).”
“The car which the major and Ruth had used in reaching the gardener's cottage from the German front stood panting on the drive.”
Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier
“The castle he identified as the cottage where he and Jenny had spent the summer; the bleary-eyed old peacock was the chicken he had dosed with cayenne pepper, hoping to cure its rheumatism; the pool with the white threads for sunlight was the water-butt into which Tom had fallen from the tiles -- "those are the hairs out of his own old tail.”
“Now if you call my cottage dull inside the yard gates at Bristol, I'm with you, Mas 'Don; but after all there's no place like home.”
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