COTTAGE

bungalow, cottage

(noun) a small house with a single story

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

cottage (plural cottages)

A small house.

Synonyms: cot, hut

A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.

(UK, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.

Synonym: Thesaurus:bathroom

(Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.

Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, tea house (US)

Verb

cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)

To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.

(intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

Source: Wiktionary

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Cot"tage (kt"tj; 48), n. Etym: [From Cot a cotttage.]

Definition: A small house; a cot; a hut.

Note: The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size. Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [Eng.] -- Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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