cottage

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”). Old Northern French cote probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic origin.

Slang sense “public toilet“ from 19th century, due to resemblance.

Pronunciation

A thatched cottage in Herefordshire, United Kingdom.

A public toilet in London, United Kingdom.

• • IPA^(key): /ˈkɑtɪdʒ/, [ˈkɑɾɪdʒ]
  • IPA^(key): /ˈkɑtədʒ/, [ˈkɑɾədʒ]
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒtɪdʒ/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: cot‧tage

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.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.”

   Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.

3. (UK, slang, archaic) A public lavatory
   1. (Polari) as a meeting place for homosexual men.

Synonyms

• (public toilet as a gay meeting place): gingerbread office; tea room, tearoom, teahouse, tea house (US); see also Thesaurus:bathroom.

Derived terms

• cottage cheese
• cottage food operation‎
• cottage hospital
• cottage industry
• telecottage

Related terms

• cosset
• cot
• coterie

Translations

A small house; a cot; a hut

• Arabic: كُوخ m (kūḵ)
• Bulgarian: къщичка (bg) f (kǎštička), къщурка (bg) f (kǎšturka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 村舍 (zh) (cūnshè), 小屋 (zh) (xiǎowū)

• Esperanto: dometo
• Finnish: mökki (fi)
• French: cottage (fr) m
• German: Cottage (de) n, Häuschen (de) n, Kotten (de) m
• Irish: teach beag m, teachín m
• Italian: casolare (it), rustico (it) m
• Japanese: コテージ (kotēji), 小屋 (ja) (こや, koya)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: casa (la) f, tugurium n
• Norman: caûmiéthe f, caûminne f
• Persian: کلبه (fa) (kolbe), کازه (fa) (kâze)
• Portuguese: chalé (pt) m
• Russian: (shack) хи́жина (ru) f (xížina), (chalet) котте́дж (ru) m (kottɛ́dž), до́мик (ru) m (dómik), (log hut) изба́ (ru) f (izbá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кућица f

  Roman: kućica (sh) f

• Spanish: chalet (es)
• Swedish: stuga (sv) c
• Welsh: tyddyn m

Verb

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.taʒ/

Noun

cottage m (plural cottages)

1. cottage

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Portuguese

Noun

cottage m (uncountable)

1. cottage cheese (a cheese curd product)