cottage tent
- noun
:
carpa tipo cabaña
- Our family spent the weekend camping in a comfortable cottage tent by the lake.
Examples
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The cottage tent provided enough room for four people and their gear.
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Many campsites offer spacious cottage tents for rent during the summer.
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We rented a cottage tent for our family vacation.
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The cottage tent was spacious enough for six people.
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Our family spent the weekend camping in a comfortable cottage tent by the lake.
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Many campsites offer spacious cottage tents for rent during the summer.
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The cottage tent provided enough room for four people and their gear.
Synonyms
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1.3
A big shelter made of cloth for people at outdoor events
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2.5
A shelter made from strong heavy canvas cloth used for camping
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3.9
A large shelter made of heavy cloth used outdoors by soldiers or campers
A large camping shelter with four straight cloth walls that gives more room inside than a normal tent
A tent used for sleeping when camping
A large cone-shaped canvas tent held up by a central tripod with an opening at the top for air
A tent that Inuit people make from seal skin to use in summer
How Big
- UK
5
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably derived from combining 'cottage' (a small house) with 'tent' (a collapsible shelter): it denotes a tent that resembles or functions like a small house, typically larger and family-sized. This straightforward noun–noun compounding follows common English and cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Cottage tent gets its name from the picture of a little house inside a tent: cottage means a small 'house' and tent is a temporary 'shelter'. So a cottage tent is a tent that looks more like a small house, with walls and a roof, and therefore means 'a large tent with walls and a roof designed to accommodate a family'.