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cottage
[ kot-ij ]
noun
- a small house, usually of only one story.
- 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
/ ˈɒɪ /
noun
- a small simple house, esp in a rural area
- a small house in the country or at a resort, used for holiday purposes
- one of several housing units, as at a hospital, for accommodating people in groups
- slang.a public lavatory
Other Word Forms
- dzt adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cottage1
Example Sentences
Others combine to forge inexact recollections, grouping together years of returning to specific family properties, rental houses and cottages, condos and campsites.
She drove back to the cottage and said she gave birth leaning against the bed upstairs without medical assistance.
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.”
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.
The younger Okura and company have been upgrading infrastructure steadily and would like to reopen the motel — perhaps even get the six cottages open in time for the Route 66 centennial in 2026.
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