Cottage vs Villa - What's the difference?
cottage | villa |
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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A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
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, passage=This villa' was long and low and white, and severe after its manner?: for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of ' villas all the world over.}}
(UK) A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.
(Ancient Rome) a country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
As nouns the difference between cottage and villa
is that cottage is a small house; a cot; a hut while villa is a house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.As a verb cottage
is to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.As a proper noun Villa is
Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham.cottage
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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)villa
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(wikipedia villa)Noun
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