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cottage

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10
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12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/
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/ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/ · /ˈkɑt.ɪd͡ʒ/ · [ˈkɑɾ.ɪd͡ʒ] · /ˈkɑt.əd͡ʒ/ · [ˈkɑɾ.əd͡ʒ]

Definition of cottage

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small house.
    “So when four years were wholly finished, / She threw her royal robes away. / “Make me a cottage in the vale,” she said, / “Where I may mourn and pray.”
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noun

  1. A small house.
    “So when four years were wholly finished, / She threw her royal robes away. / “Make me a cottage in the vale,” she said, / “Where I may mourn and pray.”
  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.”
    “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.””
  3. (UK, archaic, slang)A public lavatory.
  4. (Polari)A meeting place for homosexual men.

verb

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

name

  1. A township in Saline County, Illinois.
  2. An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United States.
  3. A village in Rivière du Rempart District, Mauritius.

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Etymology

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European…

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Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, also compare Dutch and English hut. Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin. Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.

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