Cottage vs Pension - What's the difference?
cottage | pension |
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.
* , chapter=1
, 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.
----
A gratuity paid regularly as benefit due to a person in consideration of past services; notably to one retired from service, on account of retirement age, disability or similar cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers; sometimes passed on to the heirs, or even specifically for them, as to the families of soldiers killed in service.
A stated regular allowance by way of patronage or subsidy, e.g. to meritorious artists, or the like.
Accommodations or the payment for accommodations, especially at a boarding house or small hotel in Europe.
A boarding house or small hotel, as in continental Europe, which offers lodging and certain meals and services.
(dated) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
(archaic) A wage in active service
As nouns the difference between cottage and pension
is that cottage is a small house; a cot; a hut while pension is a gratuity paid regularly as benefit due to a person in consideration of past services; notably to one retired from service, on account of retirement age, disability or similar cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers; sometimes passed on to the heirs, or even specifically for them, as to the families of soldiers killed in service.As verbs the difference between cottage and pension
is that cottage is to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging while pension is to grant a pension.cottage
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage ’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
Usage notes
Sense “public toilet” dates from 19th century, now only in gay slang.Derived terms
* cottage cheese * cottage hospital * cottage industryVerb
(cottag)pension
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Pensioners depend on their pension to pay the bills
- A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not (John Irving).
