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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cottage \Cot"tage\ (k?t"t?j; 48), noun [From {Cot} a cottage.] A small house; a cot; a hut.
Note: The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size.
{Cottage allotment}. See under {Alloment}. [Eng.]
{Cottage cheese}, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cottage
noun: a small house with a single story [syn: {bungalow}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "cottage": Aldine, Arabesque, Byzantine, Canevari, Etruscan, Grolier, Harleian, Jansenist, Maioli, Roxburgh, blockhouse, box, bungalow, cabin, chalet, cot, cote, dentelle, fanfare, hut, lodge, log cabin, love nest, pied-a-terre, pointille, shack, shanty, snuggery
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Cottage (1.) A booth in a vineyard (Isa. 1:8); a temporary shed covered with leaves or straw to shelter the watchman that kept the garden. These were slight fabrics, and were removed when no longer needed, or were left to be blown down in winter (Job 27:18). (2.) A lodging-place (rendered "lodge" in Isa. 1:8); a slighter structure than the "booth," as the cucumber patch is more temporary than a vineyard (Isa. 24:20). It denotes a frail structure of boughs supported on a few poles, which is still in use in the East, or a hammock suspended between trees, in which the watchman was accustomed to sleep during summer. (3.) In Zeph. 2:6 it is the rendering of the Hebrew _keroth_, which some suppose to denote rather "pits" (R.V. marg., "caves") or "wells of water," such as shepherds would sink.
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