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- Dictionarycottage/ˈkɒtɪdʒ/
noun
- 1. a small house, typically one in the country: "a holiday cottage"
- 2. (in the context of casual homosexual encounters) a public toilet. informal British
verb
- 1. perform homosexual acts in a public toilet: informal British "they said that at some point in their lives they've cottaged or cruised in parks"
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a small house, usually away from a city or town. (Definition of cottage from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of cottage. cottage. The poor rates increasingly paid for cottage rents, off-loaded by landowners adopting stricter estate management practices. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
1. : the dwelling of a farm laborer or small farmer. 2. : a usually small frame one-family house. 3. : a small detached dwelling unit at an institution. 4. : a usually small house for vacation use. cottagey. ˈkä-ti-jē. adjective. Synonyms. bach [ New Zealand] cabin. camp. chalet. lodge. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.
A cottage is a small house, usually in the country. They used to have a cottage in N.W. Scotland. My sister Yvonne also came to live at Ockenden Cottage with me.
a small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort, etc., owned or rented as a vacation home. one of a group of small, separate houses, as for patients at a hospital, guests at a hotel, or students at a boarding school. cottage. / ˈkɒtɪdʒ / noun. a small simple house, esp in a rural area.
Definition of cottage noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A cottage is a small house, particularly a traditional or old-fashioned house, or one that is used seasonally. Your family might rent a cottage near the beach every summer. In the US, a cottage typically has only one story, while in Canada a house can be much larger and still be called a cottage.
1. (Architecture) a small simple house, esp in a rural area. 2. (Architecture) US and Canadian a small house in the country or at a resort, used for holiday purposes. 3. US one of several housing units, as at a hospital, for accommodating people in groups. 4. slang a public lavatory. [C14: from cot 2]
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023 How to use cottage in a sentence Finally, as the sun was about to set, she came upon a little cottage that belonged to seven dwarfs.
COTTAGE definition: a small house, usually in the countryside. Learn more.
In the law of England and Wales the definition of a cottage is "a small house or habitation without land". However, originally under an Elizabethan statute , the cottage had to be built with at least 4 acres (0.02 km 2 ; 0.01 sq mi) of land.
