Search results
- Dictionarycottage/ˈkɒtɪdʒ/
noun
- 1. a small house, typically one in the country: "a holiday cottage"
- 2. (in the context of casual homosexual encounters) a public toilet. informal British
verb
- 1. perform homosexual acts in a public toilet: informal British "they said that at some point in their lives they've cottaged or cruised in parks"
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
a small house, usually away from a city or town. (Definition of cottage from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of cottage. cottage. The poor rates increasingly paid for cottage rents, off-loaded by landowners adopting stricter estate management practices. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
The meaning of COTTAGE is the dwelling of a farm laborer or small farmer. How to use cottage in a sentence.
The tied accommodation provided to farm workers was usually a cottage, see cottage garden. In England the term holiday cottage now denotes a specialised form of residential let property, attracting various tax benefits to the owner. The holiday cottage exists in many cultures under different names.
a small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort, etc., owned or rented as a vacation home. 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. / ˈkɒtɪdʒ / noun. a small simple house, esp in a rural area.
Definition of cottage noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A cottage is a small house, usually in the country. They used to have a cottage in N.W. Scotland. My sister Yvonne also came to live at Ockenden Cottage with me.
A cottage is a small house, particularly a traditional or old-fashioned house, or one that is used seasonally. Your family might rent a cottage near the beach every summer. In the US, a cottage typically has only one story, while in Canada a house can be much larger and still be called a cottage.
COTTAGE definition: a small house, usually in the countryside. Learn more.
1. (Architecture) a small simple house, esp in a rural area. 2. (Architecture) USandCanadian a small house in the country or at a resort, used for holiday purposes. 3. US one of several housing units, as at a hospital, for accommodating people in groups. 4. slang a public lavatory. [C14: from cot 2]
How to use . cottage in a sentenceFinally, as the sun was about to set, she came upon a little cottage that belonged to seven dwarfs.