cottage

«cottage» in Mova's school dictionary: A small house, usually in the countryside or a village… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cottage, cottages)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small house, usually in the countryside or a village, often old and cosy. tree →

2) (Canada, some US) A holiday house by a lake or in the countryside. tree →

3) (in compounds) cottage cheese (a soft white lumpy cheese), cottage pie (minced beef topped with mashed potato). tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and fairy tales cottages are homes of woodcutters and grandmothers in the woods; in everyday life families rent cottages for holidays. In Canada going "to the cottage" means to a lake house for summer. Phrases: a country cottage, a thatched cottage, holiday cottage, cottage pie.

examples

• Little Red Riding Hood walked to her grandmother's cottage. tree →
• We rented a cottage by the sea for a week. tree →
• The thatched cottage had roses round the door. tree →
• (Canada) We go to the cottage every summer to swim in the lake. tree →
• For tea we had cottage pie. tree →
• The cottage had just two bedrooms. tree →
• At midnight the cottage door opened. tree →

note

Countable. A cottage is smaller and simpler than a house or villa. Cottage cheese and cottage pie are foods, not houses.

In the corpora

• Now she has a little cottage with sheep and has named every sheep after a relative.
• mlyntsI are thin pancakes eaten with jam or cottage cheese; rolled with a filling they may be called nalysnyky.

Trees and pragmatics

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