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noun ADJ. humble, little, small, tiny | charming, lovely, picturesque, pretty | country, rural | lonely | empty, unoccupied | derelict, run-down | half-timbered, thatched, thatch-roofed | detached, terraced | three-bed, three-bedroom, three-bedroomed, three-room, etc. | rented | farm, estate, tied (= owned by a farmer and rented to one of his/her workers) They lived in a tied cottage on the estate. | holiday, summer, weekend | retirement | guest They put us up in a guest cottage next to their house. VERB + COTTAGE have, own It was her dream to have a little cottage in the country | live in, stay in We stayed in a cottage on a farm. | rent, take We rented a holiday cottage for a week. | let | buy | sell COTTAGE + NOUN home | garden PREP. in a/the ~
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cottage
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + cottage
little/small/tiny
• He lived all his life in a small cottage by the river.
remote
(= far from any towns )
• There’s a remote cottage in the mountains where we go for walking holidays.
picturesque
(= pretty )
• Would you prefer to live in a modern house or a picturesque cottage?
a thatched cottage
(= with a roof made from dry straw )
• a row of small thatched cottages
a country cottage
(= in the countryside )
• A lot of people dream of living in a country cottage.
a stone cottage
• The village is full of old stone cottages with thatched roofs.
a holiday cottage
British English (= that people use or rent for holidays )
• We rented a holiday cottage in Wales.
a weekend/summer cottage
(= that the owners go to at weekends or in the summer )
• They live in London but they also have a weekend cottage by the sea.
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