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# cottage

«cottage» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small house, usually in the countryside or a village…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cottage, cottages)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small house, usually in the countryside or a village, often old and cosy. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x1)
- We rented a cottage by the sea for a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x2)
- The thatched cottage had roses round the door. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x4)
- For tea we had cottage pie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x5)
- The cottage had just two bedrooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cottage/#x6)
- At midnight the cottage door opened. [tree →](https://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Now she has a little cottage with sheep and has named every sheep after a relative.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/18/)
- [mlyntsI are thin pancakes eaten with jam or cottage cheese; rolled with a filling they may be called nalysnyky.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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