cottage
Syllables: cot·tage/ˈkɑt.ɪd͡ʒ/UK/ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/
cottage noun: a small house.
Noun
cottage (plural cottages)
- A small house.
- So when four years were wholly finished, / She threw her royal robes away. / “Make me a cottage in the vale,” she said, / “Where I may mourn and pray.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Palace of Art”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 154
- A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
- Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.
- Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- A public lavatory.
- Synonyms:
- bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, WC, cloaca, closet
- A meeting place for homosexual men.
- Synonyms:
- gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, tea house
Verb
cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)
- To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
- To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
Proper noun capitalized: Cottage
Cottage
- A township in Saline County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United States.
- A village in Rivière du Rempart District, Mauritius.
cottage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
cottage in Hindi
- a small house; a cot; a hut
- कुटिया kuṭiyā, झोपड़ी jhopṛī
cottage in Tamil
- குச்சில், குடிசை, குடில், சிற்றில், நாட்டுப்புற மனை
cottage in Urdu
- cottage
- کلبہ kulba
cottage in Bengali
- কুটীর
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- cottage in Malayalam
- കുടിൽ kuṭil
- cottage in Kannada
- ಗುಡಿಸಲು, ಕುಟೀರ, ಸಣ್ಣಮನೆ, ಹಳ್ಳಿಮನೆ
- cottage in Punjabi
- ਕਾਟੇਜ
- cottage in Odia
- ଉଟଜ uṭaja
- cottage in Nepali
- कुटीर, कुटिर, कटेज
- cottage in Arabic
- كُوخ kūḵ, مُنَيْزِل munayzil, عُشَّة ʕušša
Examples of cottage in a sentence
- A craft such as quilting may be pursued as a hobby or as a cottage industry.
- The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.
- The police are hoping to find the people who burned down the cottage.
Synonyms of cottage
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Forms of cottage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cottages |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cottages |
| present participle | cottaging |
| past participle | cottaged |
| past | cottaged |
Origin of cottage
Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“cottage, hut”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Old Norse kot, from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota (“hut, tent”), probably akin to Proto-Iranian *kátah (“house; roof”). However, also compare Dutch and English hut. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Koate (“cottage, hut, small house”), Dutch kot (“ramshackle housing”), German Kate, Kote (“cot, cottage, hut”), Norwegian Bokmål kote (“cot, cottage, hut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kot, kott (“small house; small room”), Norwegian Nynorsk kote, kotto, kåte (“hut”), Swedish kåta (“cot, cottage, hut”), Ainu コタン (kotan, “village; town; island; land; country; place”), Akkala Sami куэһть (kueht’, “hut, tent”), Brahui کڈی (kuḍḍī / kuḍī, “hut, small house; wife”), Erzya кудо (kudo, “house”), Estonian koda (“building, house”), Finnish kota (“house, hut”), Hungarian ház (“house”), Kildin Sami куэдтҍ (kuedt’, “hut”), Komi-Permyak керку (kerku, “house, hut”) Komi-Zyrian керка (kerka, “house; family”), Livonian kuodā (“house”)...
Words formed from cottage
- cottage bacon
- cottage cheese
- cottage cheese ass
- cottagecore
- cottage country
- cottage court
- cottage food operation
- cottage fried potatoes
- cottage fries
- cottage fry
- Cottage Grove
- cottage home
- cottage hospital
- cottage industry
- cottageless
- cottagelike
- cottage loaf
- cottage orchard
- cottage orné
- cottage parent
- cottage piano
- cottage pie
- Cottage Point
- cottage pudding
- cottager
- cottage suite
- cottage witch
- cottagey
- Creole cottage
- electronic cottage
- summer cottage
- Swiss Cottage
- telecottage
Phrases with cottage
- cottage pies
- Rose Cottage
- cottage homes
- cottage loaves
- cottage pianos
- cottage suites
- cottage cheeses
- cottage parents
- cottage orchards
- cottage puddings
- cottage hospitals
- cottage industries
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Words that rhyme with cottage
Questions about cottage
- What does cottage mean?
- Cottage means a small house.
- What is cottage in Hindi?
- Cottage in Hindi is कुटिया (kuṭiyā), झोपड़ी (jhopṛī). See Cottage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cottage?
- Cottage can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cottage?
- Cottage is pronounced /ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cottage?
- The plural of cottage is cottages.
Words near cottage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cottage (page history and authors); Cottage (page history and authors); cottage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کلبہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); cottage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cottage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cottage (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଉଟଜ (Odia) (page history and authors); cottage (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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