Cottage vs Countryside - What's the difference?
cottage | countryside |
A small house; a cot; a hut.
A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
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, title= (UK, slang, dated) A public toilet.
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
(intransitive, British, slang) Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
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(en noun) (typically used with the definite article)
A rural landscape.
A rural area, or the rural part of a larger area, as in "the Swedish countryside."
As nouns the difference between cottage and countryside
is that cottage is a small house; a cot; a hut while countryside is a rural landscape.As a verb cottage
is to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.cottage
English
Noun
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