cottage
A small house.
Noun 3 meanings
A small house.
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.”
A meeting place for homosexual men.
Verb 1 meaning
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
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”).
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COTTAGE at a glance
COTTAGE has 7 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + T 1 + T 1 + A 1 + G 2 + E 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,001 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with cottage
All rhymesOne letter away
- POTTAGE10
- CUTTAGE10
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