COTTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cottage mean? 

• COTTAGE (noun)
  The noun COTTAGE has 1 sense:

1. a small house with a single story

  Familiarity information: COTTAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COTTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small house with a single story

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bungalow; cottage

Hypernyms ("cottage" is a kind of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

 Context examples 

It was you who told me first that the cottage was occupied.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I see a little cottage at the right of us," he said, "built of logs and branches. Shall we go there?"

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

When she reached the dwarfs’ cottage, she knocked at the door, and cried, “Fine wares to sell!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He seemed curious regarding the cottage, too, as if it were the first time he had seen it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Thomas Bilder lives in one of the cottages in the enclosure behind the elephant-house, and was just sitting down to his tea when I found him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It had been no easy matter when he first drifted in mysteriously out of nowhere to their little mountain cottage.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

There is a church there, you see, a few cottages, and an inn.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You then went to the vicarage, waited outside it for some time, and finally returned to your cottage.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The curricle with its tandem mares was waiting for us outside the cottage, and Ambrose had placed the refection-basket, the lap-dog, and the precious toilet-box inside of it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The material for a feast was ever at hand in days when, if there was grim want in the cottage, there was at least rude plenty in the castle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)