Cote Meaning
/kəʊt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA cottage or hut.
nounA small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
Sentence Examples
The family stayed in a small cote by the lake.
The cote was surrounded by beautiful gardens.
The farmer built a small wood cote for his pigeons.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The farmer built a wooden ____ for the doves in the backyard.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The family stayed in a small ____ by the lake.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English cote, from the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutch kot.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes."
— 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
"We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming."
— c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The farmer built a wooden ____ for the doves in the backyard.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The family stayed in a small ____ by the lake.