cottage

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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').

Noun

cottage (plural cottages)

1. A small house; a cot; a hut.
2. 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.

Derived terms

• cottage cheese
• cottage hospital
• cottage industry

Translations

A small house; a cot; a hut

Arabic: كوخ (ar) (kuukh) m. Bulgarian: къщичка (bg) f., къщурка (bg) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 村舍 (cmn) (cūnshè), 小屋 (cmn) (xiǎowū) Croatian: kućica (hr) f. Esperanto: dometo (eo) Finnish: mökki (fi) German: Cottage n., Häuschen n., Kotten m.

Italian: casolare (it) Japanese: コテージ (ja) (kotēji), 小屋 (ja) (こや, koya) Kurdish: کووخ Portuguese: chalé (pt) m. Russian: (shack) хижина (ru) (xížina) f., (chalet) коттедж (ru) (kottédž) m. Spanish: chalet (es) Swedish: stuga (sv) c. Welsh: tyddyn (cy)

Verb

cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)

1. (intransitive, UK, slang) Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
2. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.

See also

• glory hole