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cottier

cottier noun: someone who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager.

Noun

cottier (plural cottiers)

  1. Someone who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager.
    • Because a cottier deeply in arrears to his landlord is not industrious, there are people who think that the Irish are naturally idle.1870, John Stuart Mill, chapter 1, in The Subjection of Women, 3rd edition, The Modern Library, →ISBN
    • [W]hat he objects to giving, is a little return on rent-days to help a tenant to buy stock, or an outlay on repairs to keep the weather out at a tenant's barn-door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier's.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 38, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV

Proper noun capitalized: Cottier

Cottier (plural Cottiers)

  1. A surname from French.

cottier meaning in Tamil

cottier in Tamil

கூலியர் குடில், குடில் வாழ்நர்

Forms of cottier

Noun
pluralcottiers
Proper noun
pluralCottiers

Origin of cottier

From Old French cotier. See coterie, and compare cotter.

Borrowed from French Cottier, or a variant of Cotter.

Words formed from cottier

Questions about cottier

What does cottier mean?
Cottier means someone who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager.
What is cottier in Tamil?
Cottier in Tamil is கூலியர் குடில், குடில் வாழ்நர். See Cottier meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cottier?
Cottier can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cottier?
The plural of cottier is cottiers.

Words near cottier in the dictionary

  1. Cottian
  2. Cottian Alps
  3. cotticed
  4. cottid
  5. cottids
  6. cottier
  7. cottierism
  8. cottiers
  9. cottiform
  10. cottiforms
  11. Cottingham

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cottier (page history and authors); Cottier (page history and authors); cottier (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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