Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, single-storied house, especially in the country.
- noun A small vacation house.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Australia, a dwelling without up-stairs rooms; a house in which all the rooms are on the ground floor: as, a weather-board cottage with twelve rooms.
- noun A cot; a humble habitation, as of a farm-laborer or a European peasant.
- noun A small country residence or detached suburban house, adapted to a moderate scale of living.
- noun A temporary residence at a watering-place or a health- or pleasure-resort, often a large and costly structure.
- noun In old English law, the service to which a cotset or cotter was bound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small house; a cot; a hut.
- noun [Eng.] See under
Alloment . - noun the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
house ; acot ; ahut . - noun A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
- noun UK, slang, dated A
public toilet . - verb To stay at a seasonal home, to go
cottaging . - verb intransitive, UK, slang Of men: To have
homosexual sex in a publiclavatory ; to practicecottaging .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small house with a single story
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He's also writing lots of magazine articles, updating his website, publishing every issue of The Realist online and, in his spare time, maintaining what he calls his "cottage industry"-- peddling a digitally colored edition of the infamous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy" parody, created by Mad magazine artist Wally Wood and first published in 1967 as a centerspread in The Realist.
Michael Sigman: Satirist Paul Krassner Turning 80, Going Strong Michael Sigman 2011
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Rather than feel like an empty or unfilled space, the dream of the cottage is a warm beacon.
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When her cottage is attacked the following night, Coyle leads her into the forest, away from civilization.
Archive 2009-07-01 Nalini Singh 2009
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When her cottage is attacked the following night, Coyle leads her into the forest, away from civilization.
Guest Author: Michelle Raven Nalini Singh 2009
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He's also writing lots of magazine articles, updating his website, publishing every issue of The Realist online and, in his spare time, maintaining what he calls his "cottage industry"-- peddling a digitally colored edition of the infamous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy" parody, created by Mad magazine artist Wally Wood and first published in 1967 as a centerspread in The Realist.
Michael Sigman: Satirist Paul Krassner Turning 80, Going Strong Michael Sigman 2011
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A Katrina cottage is a small, permanent house designed as an alternative to the government trailers where many residents are still living.
USATODAY.com - Gulf Coast taking a look at 'new urbanism' 2006
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Also, if you do buy on the Gulf, make sure first that your cottage is at least a couple of hundred yards back from the tide's high water mark, or it may be destroyed by another storm of that ferocity.
Information on beach areas near Progresso/Merida needed 2004
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Also, if you do buy on the Gulf, make sure first that your cottage is at least a couple of hundred yards back from the tide's high water mark, or it may be destroyed by another storm of that ferocity.
Information on beach areas near Progresso/Merida needed 2004
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Also, if you do buy on the Gulf, make sure first that your cottage is at least a couple of hundred yards back from the tide's high water mark, or it may be destroyed by another storm of that ferocity.
Information on beach areas near Progresso/Merida needed 2004
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Also, if you do buy on the Gulf, make sure first that your cottage is at least a couple of hundred yards back from the tide's high water mark, or it may be destroyed by another storm of that ferocity.
Information on beach areas near Progresso/Merida needed 2004
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