Meaning & use
thatched roof cottage
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Meaning
nouncountable
A small house whose roof is covered with dried straw or reeds instead of tiles or slates.
Grammar: Countable, and the plural is 'thatched roof cottages': 'They stayed in two thatched roof cottages.'
Patterns
- live in a thatched roof cottage
- a row of thatched roof cottages
They rented a thatched roof cottage in the countryside for a week.
The village is famous for its old thatched roof cottages.
A thatched roof cottage needs regular work to keep the straw dry.
Word forms
| plural | thatched roof cottages |
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Common combinations
- stay in a thatched roof cottage
- We stayed in a thatched roof cottage near the coast.
- an old thatched roof cottage
- An old thatched roof cottage stood at the end of the lane.
- a traditional thatched roof cottage
- Tourists come to see the traditional thatched roof cottages.
- a thatched roof cottage with a garden
- She bought a thatched roof cottage with a small garden.
Synonyms and how they differ
- thatched cottage
- The shorter and more common British form; it means the same thing, since a cottage is usually understood to have a thatched roof in this phrase.
- cabin
- A small simple house, often made of wood; it does not tell you what the roof is made of, so it is not a true synonym.
Word family
Commonly confused: thatched roof cottage or cottage?
thatched roof cottage vs cottage
A cottage is simply a small house; only the full phrase tells you the roof is made of straw.
Practice
What is a thatched roof cottage?
Choose one answer.
'Thatched' describes a roof covered with dried straw or reeds, and 'cottage' means a small house, so option 0 fits. The others describe different buildings or roofs.
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