cottagers

Small home residents

Cottagers are people who live in cottages—small, modest rural dwellings.

Historically, the term described rural laborers or tenant farmers occupying simple houses on an estate.

In modern use, cottagers often refers to people who own or rent vacation cottages, particularly lakeside or countryside retreats: The cottagers return every summer.

vacation

lakefront

Shore of inland water

lakeside · boating · fishing · campfire · hammock · deck · swimming · hiking · serenity · summerhouse

rural

pastoral

Of countryside or clergy care

agrarian · countryside · thatched · hedgerow · meadow · orchard · garden · woodcutter · smallholding · croft

simplicity

humble

Unassuming about oneself

rustic · spartan · unpretentious · homely · simple · unassuming · functional · utilitarian · no-frills · makeshift

residents

tenant

One who rents property

renter · lodger · householder · leaseholder · boarder · settler · homesteader · denizen · villager · local

community

neighborhood

Residential area nearby

locals · gatherings · fellowship · kinship · camaraderie · solidarity · bonding · network · potluck · cooperative

Categories
Opposites
dwelling size and grandeur

cottagerslords of the manor

Feudal estate rulers

landowners · landed gentry · landlords · freeholders · yeomen

social class and landed status

cottagerslanded gentry

Landowning class living on rents

aristocrats · lords · nobility · squires · country gentlemen

rural vs. urban dwelling

cottagerscity dwellers

People living in metropolises

urbanites · townspeople · metropolitans · townsfolk · suburbanites

Phrases
Family

cottage, cottages, cottager, cottage cheese, cottage industry

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G