What's the difference between 'cottage' and 'cabin'?

Question

For example: 'a wood cottage' and 'a wood cabin'?

Are both the same?

Answer 1

A cabin is generally one room, occasionally two.

A cottage is a small house.

Cabins also tend to be built in a less finished fashion, as opposed to a cottage that is typically painted, has windows and other finished work.

The location of a cabin is always rural - a cottage can be in an urban area.

The location of each (near water, etc.) has nothing to do with whether or not it is a "cottage" or "cabin', nor does the material they are built of.

Cabins and cottages can be built of any building material.

Answer 2

a cottage is the dwelling of a farm laborer or small farmer. and a cabin is a small one-story dwelling usually of simple construction....so nothing.  

Answer 3

A wood cottage? Cottages aren't made of wood...they are small, cute houses. You get them in the countryside a lot. Sometimes posh people like to name their houses "Something Cottage" when it is obviously a big house.

Answer 4

size

cottage is bigger than cabin

material

cabin is unlikely to be make of stone, while cottage can be made made of anything

place

cottage is smth in the city/town/village while cabin is smth sole, usually in the wood or near the lake, far from the populated areas

and i couldn't but add it

cottage cheese is yummy!!!

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Answer 5

Cottage is a cheese , or something George Michael get up to , The Cabin is a shop on Coronation St  

Answer 6

a cottage is supposed to be in the countryside an a cabin is near water (like a lake or a river)  

Answer 7

none----isn't that like a town vs a village?

Answer 8

The difference between them is that you go to a cabin, which is normally made with wood and is in the woods someplace, for a vacation or a getaway.

On the other hand the cottage is a little house/room close to the sea and/or on a farm.

The cabin is made of wood and the cottage is made mostly of stone.

I hope this can help you.

Answer 9

Cottage is made of stone, cabin of wood.

Answer 10

Cabins are made of wood. A cottage is a more broad word for a second house outside of urban areas.

Answer 11

Cabin (housing), small, roughly built house usually with a wood exterior and typically found in rural areas

Cottage, a dwelling, typically in a rural, or semi-rural location