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cottiers

cottiers is the plural of cottier.

Meaning of cottier

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Cottiers

Cottiers

  1. (plural) plural of Cottier

Questions about cottiers

What is cottiers the plural of?
Cottiers is the plural of cottier.
What part of speech is cottiers?
Cottiers is a proper noun.

Words near cottiers in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cottiers (page history and authors); Cottiers (page history and authors); cottier (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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