cottage

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Etymology

Anglo-Norman, from Old English cot 'cot, cottage' and -age 'surrounding property', from Proto-Germanic *kutan (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz 'execution pit'), from Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta (compare Avestan kata 'chamber').

Noun

cottage (plural cottages)

1. A small house; a cot; a hut.
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.

3. (UK, slang, dated) A public toilet.

Derived terms

• cottage cheese
• cottage hospital
• cottage industry

Translations

A small house; a cot; a hut

• Arabic: كوخ (ar) (kūx) m
• Bulgarian: къщичка (bg) f (kǎštička), къщурка (bg) f (kǎšturka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 村舍 (cmn) (cūnshè), 小屋 (cmn) (xiǎowū)

• Esperanto: dometo (eo)
• Finnish: mökki (fi)
• French: cottage (fr) m
• German: Cottage (de) n, Häuschen (de) n, Kotten (de) m
• Italian: casolare (it)
• Japanese: コテージ (ja) (kotēji), 小屋 (ja) (こや, koya)
• Jèrriais: caûmiéthe f, caûminne f

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کووخ

• Portuguese: chalé (pt) m
• Russian: (shack) хижина (ru) (xížina) f , (chalet) коттедж (ru) (kottɛ́dž) m , домик (ru) (dómik) m , (log hut) изба (ru) (izbá) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кућица (sh) f

  Roman: kućica (sh) f

• Spanish: chalet (es)
• Swedish: stuga (sv) c
• Welsh: tyddyn (cy)

Verb

cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)

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