cottage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small, often old house, usually in the countryside.

   They spent the weekend in a tiny stone cottage by the lake.

2. 2
   noun

   A small holiday home, often in a remote or scenic place.

   Every summer the family drives up to their cottage by the sea.

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,…

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