COTTAGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cottager mean? 

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

1. someone who lives in a cottage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COTTAGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who lives in a cottage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cottage dweller; cottager

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

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)

 Context examples 

I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers—their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions; but how was I terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Cottager's wife is a very pretty part, I assure you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It is a village school: your scholars will be only poor girls—cottagers' children—at the best, farmers' daughters.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Upon these, and the like reasonings, their opinion is, that parents are the last of all others to be trusted with the education of their own children; and therefore they have in every town public nurseries, where all parents, except cottagers and labourers, are obliged to send their infants of both sexes to be reared and educated, when they come to the age of twenty moons, at which time they are supposed to have some rudiments of docility.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Elizabeth soon perceived, that though this great lady was not in commission of the peace of the county, she was a most active magistrate in her own parish, the minutest concerns of which were carried to her by Mr. Collins; and whenever any of the cottagers were disposed to be quarrelsome, discontented, or too poor, she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences, silence their complaints, and scold them into harmony and plenty.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The party drove off in very good spirits; Sir Walter prepared with condescending bows for all the afflicted tenantry and cottagers who might have had a hint to show themselves, and Anne walked up at the same time, in a sort of desolate tranquillity, to the Lodge, where she was to spend the first week.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I could mention innumerable instances which, although slight, marked the dispositions of these amiable cottagers.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The cottagers and labourers keep their children at home, their business being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their education is of little consequence to the public: but the old and diseased among them, are supported by hospitals; for begging is a trade unknown in this empire.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They often, I believe, suffered the pangs of hunger very poignantly, especially the two younger cottagers, for several times they placed food before the old man when they reserved none for themselves.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

During the morning I attended the motions of the cottagers, and when they were dispersed in various occupations, I slept; the remainder of the day was spent in observing my friends.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)