cot
UK/kɒt/
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Australia/kɔt/
cot noun: a simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
Noun (1)
cot (plural cots)
- A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
- There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 153
- Synonyms:
- camp bed
- A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
- Synonyms:
- crib
- A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
Noun (2)
cot (plural cots)
- A cottage or small homestead.
- the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC
- One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia
- A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
- Synonyms:
- cote
Noun (3)
cot (plural cots)
- A small, crudely-formed boat.
Noun (4)
cot (plural cots)
- A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
- a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)
- a cot for a sore finger
Noun (5)
cot (plural cots)
- A man who does household work normally associated with women.
- You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347
Noun (6)
cot
Noun (7) capitalized: CoT
CoT
- Initialism of chain of thought.
cot meaning in Gujarati, Odia and Nepali
cot in Gujarati
- portable or temporary bed
- ખાટલો khāṭlo, ખાટલી khāṭlī
cot in Odia
- ଖାଟ
cot in Nepali
- खाट
Examples of cot in a sentence
- I'm grateful for the three hots and a cot for four weeks.
- We had to do controlled crying so he would stay in his cot at night.
- He could see the cot but nothing more than a murky silhouette covered in a blanket.
Synonyms of cot
Forms of cot
| plural | cots |
|---|---|
| alternative form (dialectal) | cote |
Origin of cot
Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).
From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.
From Irish coite, coit (“small boat”), possibly from Medieval Latin cattia (“pan”).
Words formed from cot
Phrases with cot
Words that rhyme with cot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blot
- rot
- apricot
- ribat
- bot
- got
- not
- red-hot
- snot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- clot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- swot
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- grot
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- piping hot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- yacht
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about cot
- What does cot mean?
- Cot means a simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
- What is cot in Gujarati?
- Cot in Gujarati is ખાટલો (khāṭlo), ખાટલી (khāṭlī). See Cot meaning in Gujarati.
- What part of speech is cot?
- Cot is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cot?
- Cot is pronounced /kɒt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cot?
- The plural of cot is cots.
Words near cot in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cot (page history and authors); CoT (page history and authors); cot (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cot (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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