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Definition of cote in English: cotenoun kəʊtkoʊt A shelter for mammals or birds, especially pigeons. Example sentencesExamples - Last week Town Council members decided to look into providing one or two pigeon cotes around the town.
- The cotes are the subject of constant campaigning and the standards have risen across the board.
- Now the council is looking at introducing pigeon cotes in the town centre, in which the birds will be encouraged to feed and lay eggs, which can then be removed to keep numbers down.
- My neighbour lived on the terrace of his building, in a single room surrounded by cotes for his pigeons.
Origin Old English (in the sense 'cottage'), of Germanic origin; related to cot2. Rhymes afloat, bloat, boat, capote, coat, connote, dote, emote, float, gloat, goat, groat, misquote, moat, mote, note, oat, outvote, promote, quote, rote, shoat, smote, stoat, Succoth, table d'hôte, Terre Haute, throat, tote, vote, wrote Definition of cote in US English: cotenounkōtkoʊt A shelter for mammals or birds, especially pigeons. Example sentencesExamples - My neighbour lived on the terrace of his building, in a single room surrounded by cotes for his pigeons.
- The cotes are the subject of constant campaigning and the standards have risen across the board.
- Last week Town Council members decided to look into providing one or two pigeon cotes around the town.
- Now the council is looking at introducing pigeon cotes in the town centre, in which the birds will be encouraged to feed and lay eggs, which can then be removed to keep numbers down.
Origin Old English (in the sense ‘cottage’), of Germanic origin; related to cot. |