Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person who has the tenure of a cottage, usually also the occupant.

    someone who lives in a cottage

  2. (UK, slang)One who engages in sex in public lavatories; a practitioner of cottaging.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Cottagers are in the middle of a busy season.

    У дачників зараз гаряча пора.

    ruУ дачников сейчас горячая пора.

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  2. The snow fell heavily, blocking up the roads and shutting all the cottagers within doors.

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  3. Cottagers formed his only patients, and his Wessex-wide repute was among them alone.

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Origin

From cottage (“small hut”) + -er (demonym suffix); compare cotter.

From cottage (“small hut”) + -er (demonym suffix); compare cotter.

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Forms

plural: cottagers
Singularcottager
Pluralcottagers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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