cottage
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
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[edit] Etymology
Anglo-Norman, from Old English cot 'cot, cottage' and -age 'surrounding property', from Proto-Germanic *kutan (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz 'execution pit'), from Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta (compare Avestan kata 'chamber').
[edit] Noun
cottage (plural cottages)
- A small house; a cot; a hut.
- A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
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- Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.
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A small house; a cot; a hut
[edit] Verb
cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)
- (intransitive, UK, slang) Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
- To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.