cottage
Americannoun
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a small house, usually of only one story.
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a small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort, etc., owned or rented as a vacation home.
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one of a group of small, separate houses, as for patients at a hospital, guests at a hotel, or students at a boarding school.
noun
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a small simple house, esp in a rural area
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a small house in the country or at a resort, used for holiday purposes
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one of several housing units, as at a hospital, for accommodating people in groups
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slang a public lavatory
Other Word Forms
- cottaged adjective
Etymology
Origin of cottage
1350–1400; Middle English cotage. See cot 2, -age; compare Medieval Latin cotagium, apparently < Anglo-French
Example Sentences
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As well as the castle, there are also a number of cottages and lodges which could be let out to provide an income, he added.
From BBC
Trefor is a sprawling village with pretty stone cottages and narrow streets offering a picturesque scene.
From BBC
There was a pop-up shop decorated to look like a cozy British cottage full of holiday gifts, a scarf bar and Bloomingdale’s signature Big Brown plush collectible bear donned a plaid scarf.
It inspires in them the belief that they will one day build their own version of that cottage.
From BBC
The rented cottage had just four rooms—bedroom, front room, kitchen, and buttery.
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