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# cottage

noun (a cottage, cottages)

«cottage» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small house, usually in the countryside or a village, often old and cosy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#m1)
2. (Canada, some US) A holiday house by a lake or in the countryside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#m2)
3. (in compounds) cottage cheese (a soft white lumpy cheese), cottage pie (minced beef topped with mashed potato). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories and fairy tales cottages are homes of woodcutters and grandmothers in the woods; in everyday life families rent cottages for holidays. In Canada going "to the cottage" means to a lake house for summer. Phrases: a country cottage, a thatched cottage, holiday cottage, cottage pie.

### Examples

- Little Red Riding Hood walked to her grandmother's cottage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x1)
- We rented a cottage by the sea for a week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x2)
- The thatched cottage had roses round the door. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x3)
- (Canada) We go to the cottage every summer to swim in the lake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x4)
- For tea we had cottage pie. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x5)
- The cottage had just two bedrooms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x6)
- At midnight the cottage door opened. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x7)

### Note

Countable. A cottage is smaller and simpler than a house or villa. Cottage cheese and cottage pie are foods, not houses.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cottage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cottage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cottage.html) on Mova free.