Cottage vs Village - What's the difference?
cottage | village |
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 rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
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, title= (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
(Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
As nouns the difference between cottage and village
is that cottage is a small house; a cot; a hut while village is a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.As a verb cottage
is to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.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)village
English
(wikipedia village)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages .}}