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COTTAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small house with a single story
Synonyms:
bungalow; cottage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cottage" is a kind of...):
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
Context examples:
My attention at this time was solely directed towards my plan of introducing myself into the cottage of my protectors.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
This is the amount in four ounces of meat plus a cup of cottage cheese.
(Dietary Proteins, NIH)
At the park she laughed at the colonel, and in the cottage at Marianne.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
You'll be sorry for it by-and-by, when you've tried love in a cottage and found it a failure.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You had a little cottage near the school, you say: did he ever come there to see you?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mary was not so repulsive and unsisterly as Elizabeth, nor so inaccessible to all influence of hers; neither was there anything among the other component parts of the cottage inimical to comfort.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
They were now approaching the cottage, and all idle topics were superseded.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A cottage in some retired village would be ecstasy.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Those cottages are really a disgrace.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
And then, of his own accord, he said he would pay you enough at the start so that we could get married and have a little cottage somewhere.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)