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COTTAGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who lives in a cottage
Synonyms:
cottage dweller; cottager
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cottager" is a kind of...):
denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)
Context examples:
I soon perceived that although the stranger uttered articulate sounds and appeared to have a language of her own, she was neither understood by nor herself understood the cottagers.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
That hour passed, the sun mounted high in the heavens, but the cottagers did not appear.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Such was the history of my beloved cottagers.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Every conversation of the cottagers now opened new wonders to me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Nothing could exceed the love and respect which the younger cottagers exhibited towards their venerable companion.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathised in their joys.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The girl was young and of gentle demeanour, unlike what I have since found cottagers and farmhouse servants to be.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The cottagers arose the next morning before the sun.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence, while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But my chief delights were the sight of the flowers, the birds, and all the gay apparel of summer; when those deserted me, I turned with more attention towards the cottagers.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
