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kot.

bad, ramshackle housing

3 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/kɔt/

  1. bad, ramshackle housing

    neuter
    In wat voor een kot woont die!

  2. rudimentary building to store (garden) material

    neuter

  3. student room

    Belgium · neuter
    Leuvense koten brandden vaak af in de jaren 90.
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch cot, from Old Dutch *kot, from Proto-West Germanic *kot, from Proto-Germanic *kutą (“shed”). Cognate with English cot (“pen, coop”), the feminine stem variant Middle Dutch cote (Old Dutch kota) corresponds to German Kate (“hut”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.