name
Meaning 1
A township in Saline County, Illinois.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
cottage
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/
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/ˈkɑt.ɪd͡ʒ/ General American, weak vowel distinction
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[ˈkɑɾ.ɪd͡ʒ] General American, weak vowel distinction
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/ˈkɑt.əd͡ʒ/ weak vowel merger
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[ˈkɑɾ.əd͡ʒ] weak vowel merger
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rhymes with -ɒtɪdʒ
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CMU ARPABET: K AA1 T AH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: K AA1 T IH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 3
A village in Rivière du Rempart District, Mauritius.
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noun
Meaning 4
A small house.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: cot, hut
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.
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noun
Meaning 6
A public lavatory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, slang
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, WC, cloaca, closet, jacques, kocay, siege, cludgie, neddy, netty, shield, six, facilities, ladies and gentlemen, lavatory, lavabo, necessary, necessary room, office, office of ease, place, potty, privy, small room, smallest room, throne room, cottage, geography, House of Lords, khazi, usual offices, restroom, teahouse, tearoom, washroom, comfort room, CR, closet of decency, closet of ease, house of office, necessary place, purging place, vault, withdraught, wardrobe, shitter, urination station, bog, carsey, crapper, karzy, lats, lav, lavvy, loo, thunderbox, can, john, johnny, bogger, brasco, dike, dunny, jacks, jakes
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A meeting place for homosexual men.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Polari
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, tea house
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
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verb
Meaning 9
To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Polari, intransitive
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noun
Meaning 10
a small house with a single story
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bungalow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: house
History
Etymology
Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“cottage, hut”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Old Norse kot, from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota (“hut, tent”), probably akin to Proto-Iranian *kátah (“house; roof”). However, also compare Dutch and English hut. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Koate (“cottage, hut, small house”), Dutch kot (“ramshackle housing”), German Kate, Kote (“cot, cottage, hut”), Norwegian Bokmål kote (“cot, cottage, hut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kot, kott (“small house; small room”), Norwegian Nynorsk kote, kotto, kåte (“hut”), Swedish kåta (“cot, cottage, hut”), Ainu コタン (kotan, “village; town; island; land; country; place”), Akkala Sami куэһть (kueht’, “hut, tent”), Brahui کڈی (kuḍḍī / kuḍī, “hut, small house; wife”), Erzya кудо (kudo, “house”), Estonian koda (“building, house”), Finnish kota (“house, hut”), Hungarian ház (“house”), Kildin Sami куэдтҍ (kuedt’, “hut”), Komi-Permyak керку (kerku, “house, hut”) Komi-Zyrian керка (kerka, “house; family”), Livonian kuodā (“house”), Malayalam കുടി (kuṭi, “dwelling, house; hut; clan”), Moksha куд (kud, “house”), Mongolian хот (xot), ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (qota, “city, town”), Northern Sami goahti (“hut, tent; den, lair”), Southern Sami gåetie (“house; range; tent”), Tamil குடி (kuṭi, “ryot; tenants; citizens; family, household; descent, lineage; caste, race; house, mansion; village”), Udmurt корка (korka, “house, hut”), Ume Sami gåhtie (“tent”), Votic kõta (“house”); also Abkhaz ақыҭа (akəta, “village; community”), Armenian քաղաք (kʻaġakʻ, “city, town”), Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian ха́та (xáta, “house, hut”), Czech and Polish chata (“hut”), Gurani کەَ (ka, “house”), Pashto کلی (kəlay, “village”), Persian کده (kade, “house; village”), Northern Kurdish kedî (“domestic”), Yaghnobi кат (kat, “house”). 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.
Across languages
Translations
80 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: visele — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Amharic: ጎጆ (goǧo) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Arabic: كُوخ (kūḵ) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Arabic: مُنَيْزِل (munayzil) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Arabic: عُشَّة (ʕušša) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Azerbaijani: kottec — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Belarusian: ха́та (xáta) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Belarusian: катэ́дж (katédž) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Belarusian: до́мік (dómik) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Belarusian: ха́тка (xátka) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Belarusian: да́ча (dáča) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Bulgarian: къ́щичка (kǎ́štička) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Bulgarian: къщу́рка (kǎštúrka) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Bulgarian: хи́жа (híža) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Catalan: cabana — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Catalan: caseta — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Chinese Mandarin: 村舍 (cūnshè) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Chinese Mandarin: 小屋 (xiǎowū) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Cornish: krowji — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Czech: chalupa — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Czech: chata — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Old Czech: chalup — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Esperanto: dometo — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Finnish: mökki — a small house; a cot; a hut
- French: cottage — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Galician: palloza — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Galician: cabana — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Galician: cafúa — a small house; a cot; a hut
- German: Cottage — a small house; a cot; a hut
- German: Häuschen — a small house; a cot; a hut
- German: Kotten — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Hindi: कुटिया (kuṭiyā) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Irish: teach beag — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Irish: teachín — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Italian: casolare — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Italian: rustico — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Japanese: コテージ (kotēji) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Japanese: 小屋 (koya) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Korean: 시골집 (sigoljip) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Korean: 오두막 (odumak) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Korean: 오두막집 (odumakjip) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Korean: 코티지 (kotiji) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Korean: 별장 (byeoljang) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Central Kurdish: کووخ (kûx) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Latin: casa — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Latin: tugurium — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Latin: vìkendica — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Macedonian: ку́ќарка (kúḱarka) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Macedonian: ку́ќичка (kúḱička) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Macedonian: ко́либа (kóliba) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Malayalam: കുടിൽ (kuṭil) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Mòcheno: hitt — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Norman: caûmiéthe — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Norman: caûminne — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Iranian Persian: کُلْبِه (kolbe) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Iranian Persian: کازِه (kâze) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Plautdietsch: Kot — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Polish: chata — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Portuguese: chalé — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Russian: хи́жина (xížina) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Russian: котте́дж (chalet) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Russian: до́мик (dómik) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Russian: изба́ (izbá) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Russian: да́ча (dáča) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Serbo-Croatian: ку̏ћица — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Serbo-Croatian: вѝкендица — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Serbo-Croatian: kȕćica — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Slovak: chalupa — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Slovak: chata — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Spanish: chalet — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Spanish: chalé — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Swedish: stuga — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Ukrainian: ха́та (xáta) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Ukrainian: коте́дж (kotédž) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Ukrainian: ха́тка (xátka) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Ukrainian: хати́нка (xatýnka) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Ukrainian: до́мик (dómyk) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Ukrainian: да́ча (dáča) — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Uzbek: kottej — a small house; a cot; a hut
- Welsh: tyddyn — a small house; a cot; a hut
Real reading context