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cottage

[ kot-ij ]

noun

  1. a small house, usually of only one story.
  2. a small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort, etc., owned or rented as a vacation home.
  3. one of a group of small, separate houses, as for patients at a hospital, guests at a hotel, or students at a boarding school.


cottage

/ ˈɒɪ /

noun

  1. a small simple house, esp in a rural area
  2. a small house in the country or at a resort, used for holiday purposes
  3. one of several housing units, as at a hospital, for accommodating people in groups
  4. slang.
    a public lavatory
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • dzt adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cottage1

1350–1400; Middle English cotage. See cot 2, -age; compare Medieval Latin cotagium, apparently < Anglo-French
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cottage1

C14: from cot ²
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The couple, who married at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011, will stay at a self-catering cottage on Mull following official engagements.

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Others combine to forge inexact recollections, grouping together years of returning to specific family properties, rental houses and cottages, condos and campsites.

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She drove back to the cottage and said she gave birth leaning against the bed upstairs without medical assistance.

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Of his famed cottage paintings, Knight calls them “a cliché piled upon a fantasy piled upon a bad idea. That cottage is where the Wicked Witch lives… I’m not going in there.”

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Between the traditional cottages and smattering of shops on the main street, a giant, technicolour mural of Sir Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin, now looks out over the town.

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