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# cosy

«cosy» in Mova's school dictionary: **warm, comfortable and safe, making you feel relaxed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (cosy, cosier, cosiest; US cozy); noun (a cosy — a tea cosy)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cosy means warm, comfortable and safe, making you feel relaxed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/#m1)

2) Cosy can mean small and friendly, like a cosy café. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/#m2)

3) A tea cosy is a cover that keeps a teapot warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories, cosy describes snug homes, blankets, fires and bedtime. In writing lessons it helps describe a warm setting. Phrases: nice and cosy, cosy up, a cosy corner, tea cosy.

### examples

- The cabin was warm and cosy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/#x1)
- I curled up in a cosy blanket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/#x2)
- We read in the cosy corner of the classroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/#x3)
- The cat found a cosy spot by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/#x4)
- It's cosy inside when it's raining outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/#x5)
- Grandma knitted a tea cosy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/#x6)
- Ah! then it froze him, and he crept down again into his warm corner; there it was comfortable and cosy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/#x7)

### note

Spelling: cosy (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ), cozy (USA, often Canada). Comparatives: cosier, cosiest (y changes to i). Adverb: cosily.

### In the corpora

- [A cosy bed nearby and a calm voice help it settle over a few nights.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/3/)
- [In cartoons winter animals snuggle in cosy burrows with scarves on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/3/)
- ["Homely" in American English means plain or not pretty; in British English it means cosy and home-like.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/14/)
- ["Cosy" in a house advert means very small.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/17/)
- [In a thunderstorm, stay indoors away from windows and keep busy with something cosy; inside a house you are safe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/319-anger-fears-and-boredom/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cosy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cosy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.