cosy

«cosy» in Mova's school dictionary: warm, comfortable and safe, making you feel relaxed — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (cosy, cosier, cosiest; US cozy); noun (a cosy — a tea cosy)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cosy means warm, comfortable and safe, making you feel relaxed. tree →

2) Cosy can mean small and friendly, like a cosy café. tree →

3) A tea cosy is a cover that keeps a teapot warm. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories, cosy describes snug homes, blankets, fires and bedtime. In writing lessons it helps describe a warm setting. Phrases: nice and cosy, cosy up, a cosy corner, tea cosy.

examples

• The cabin was warm and cosy. tree →
• I curled up in a cosy blanket. tree →
• We read in the cosy corner of the classroom. tree →
• The cat found a cosy spot by the fire. tree →
• It's cosy inside when it's raining outside. tree →
• Grandma knitted a tea cosy. tree →
• Ah! then it froze him, and he crept down again into his warm corner; there it was comfortable and cosy. tree →

note

Spelling: cosy (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ), cozy (USA, often Canada). Comparatives: cosier, cosiest (y changes to i). Adverb: cosily.

In the corpora

• A cosy bed nearby and a calm voice help it settle over a few nights.
• In cartoons winter animals snuggle in cosy burrows with scarves on.
• "Homely" in American English means plain or not pretty; in British English it means cosy and home-like.
• "Cosy" in a house advert means very small.
• In a thunderstorm, stay indoors away from windows and keep busy with something cosy; inside a house you are safe.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cosy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.