Cottage

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

cottage
    n 1: a small house with a single story [syn: {bungalow},
         {cottage}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cottage \Cot"tage\ (k?t"t?j; 48), n. [From {Cot} a cottage.]
   A small house; a cot; a hut.
   [1913 Webster]

   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.
         [1913 Webster]

   {Cottage allotment}. See under {Alloment}. [Eng.]

   {Cottage cheese}, the thick part of clabbered milk strained,
      salted, and pressed into a ball.
      [1913 Webster]

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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.

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

COTTAGE, estates. A small dwelling house. See 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 216; Sheph. 
Touchst. 94; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1571, note. 
     2. The grant of a cottage, it is said, passes a small dwelling-house, 
which has no land belonging to it. Shep. To. 94.

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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