Meaning of "cosset" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COSSET

Of unknown origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF COSSET

cosset  [ˈkɒsɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COSSET

Cosset is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb cosset in English.

WHAT DOES COSSET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

François Cosset

François Cosset was a French composer. His works include 8 masses, 4 of them composed at Reims in 1659.

Definition of cosset in the English dictionary

The definition of cosset in the dictionary is to pamper; coddle; pet. Other definition of cosset is any pet animal, esp a lamb.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO COSSET

PRESENT

Present

I cosset

you cosset

he/she/it cossets

we cosset

you cosset

they cosset

Present continuous

I am cosseting

you are cosseting

he/she/it is cosseting

we are cosseting

you are cosseting

they are cosseting

Present perfect

I have cosseted

you have cosseted

he/she/it has cosseted

we have cosseted

you have cosseted

they have cosseted

Present perfect continuous

I have been cosseting

you have been cosseting

he/she/it has been cosseting

we have been cosseting

you have been cosseting

they have been cosseting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I cosseted

you cosseted

he/she/it cosseted

we cosseted

you cosseted

they cosseted

Past continuous

I was cosseting

you were cosseting

he/she/it was cosseting

we were cosseting

you were cosseting

they were cosseting

Past perfect

I had cosseted

you had cosseted

he/she/it had cosseted

we had cosseted

you had cosseted

they had cosseted

Past perfect continuous

I had been cosseting

you had been cosseting

he/she/it had been cosseting

we had been cosseting

you had been cosseting

they had been cosseting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will cosset

you will cosset

he/she/it will cosset

we will cosset

you will cosset

they will cosset

Future continuous

I will be cosseting

you will be cosseting

he/she/it will be cosseting

we will be cosseting

you will be cosseting

they will be cosseting

Future perfect

I will have cosseted

you will have cosseted

he/she/it will have cosseted

we will have cosseted

you will have cosseted

they will have cosseted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been cosseting

you will have been cosseting

he/she/it will have been cosseting

we will have been cosseting

you will have been cosseting

they will have been cosseting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would cosset

you would cosset

he/she/it would cosset

we would cosset

you would cosset

they would cosset

Conditional continuous

I would be cosseting

you would be cosseting

he/she/it would be cosseting

we would be cosseting

you would be cosseting

they would be cosseting

Conditional perfect

I would have cosset

you would have cosset

he/she/it would have cosset

we would have cosset

you would have cosset

they would have cosset

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been cosseting

you would have been cosseting

he/she/it would have been cosseting

we would have been cosseting

you would have been cosseting

they would have been cosseting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you cosset
we let´s cosset
you cosset

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to cosset

Past participle

cosseted

Present Participle

cosseting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «COSSET»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «cosset» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of cosset

baby · coddle · cosher · mollycoddle · pamper · pet

TRANSLATION OF COSSET

Find out the translation of cosset to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of cosset from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cosset» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 宠儿
• Translator English - Spanish: cosset
• English: cosset
• Translator English - Hindi: cosset
• Translator English - Arabic: ولد مدلل
• Translator English - Russian: ласкать
• Translator English - Portuguese: cosset
• Translator English - Bengali: আদর করা
• Translator English - French: dorloter
• Translator English - Malay: Cosset
• Translator English - German: verwöhnen
• Translator English - Japanese: cosset
• Translator English - Korean: cosset
• Translator English - Javanese: Cosset
• Translator English - Vietnamese: nâng niu
• Translator English - Tamil: செல்லமாக வளர்த்து
• Translator English - Marathi: कर्कश
• Translator English - Turkish: üstüne titremek
• Translator English - Italian: coccolare
• Translator English - Polish: cosset
• Translator English - Ukrainian: пестити
• Translator English - Romanian: Cosset
• Translator English - Greek: αρνάκι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: verwent
• Translator English - Swedish: cosset
• Translator English - Norwegian: cosset

QUOTES WITH «COSSET»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cosset.

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Mark Gatiss

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COSSET»

Discover the use of cosset in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cosset and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Cosset your cat: how to pamper your pussy cat in style - ...

Presents ideas, advice, suggestions, guidance and hints for creating the purrfect environment for your best friend.

Eve Devereux, Jane Burton, 1996

Transgenic Animals

4th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production Edinburgh, UK, July 1990 Chebloune, Y., Rulka, j., Cosset, F.L., Valsesia, S., Ronfort, C., Legras, C., Drynda, A., Kuzmak, J., Nigon, V.M. and Verdier, G. (1991) Immune ...

Louis-Marie Houdebine, 1997

Transgenic Models in Endocrinology

Valsesia-Wittmann S, Morling FJ, Nilson BHK, Takeuchi Y, Russell SJ, Cosset F-L. Improvement of retroviral retargeting by using amino acid spacers between an additional binding domain and the N terminus of Moloney murine leukaemia ...

Maria G. Castro, 2001

Lentiviral Vectors: With 8 Tables. XD-US. ...

J Virol 70:2957 C2962 Martin F. Kupsch J. Takeuchi Y. Russell S, Cosset FL. Collins M (1998) Retroviral vector targeting to melanoma cells by single-chain antibody incorporation in envelope. Human Gene Therapy 9:737 746 Martin F. Neil S.

Didier Trono, 2002

Gene Delivery to Mammalian Cells: Volume 2: Viral Gene ...

Morling, F. J., Peng, K. W., Cosset, F. L., and Russell, S. J. (1997) Masking of retroviral envelope functions by oligomerizing polypeptide adaptors. Virology 234 , 51–61. 260. Valesia-Wittmann, S., Morling, F. J., Hatziioannou, T., Russell, S. J.,  ...

William C. Heiser, 2004

Gene Therapy and Gene Delivery Systems

Cosset FL, Morling FJ, Takeuchi Y, Weiss RA, Collins MK et al. (1995) J Virol 69: 6314-6322 18. Nguyen TH, Pages JC, Farge D, Briand P, Weber A (1998) Hum Gene Ther 9:2469- 2479 19. Valsesia-Wittmann S, Drynda A, Deleage G, ...

David V. Schaffer, Weichang Zhou, 2005

Hepatitis C Virus: From Molecular Virology to Antiviral Therapy

Hepatology 441527—535 Barth H, Schnober EK, Zhang F, Linhardt RJ, Depla E, Boson B, Cosset FL, Patel AH, Blum HE, Baumert TF (2006b) Viral and cellular determinants of the hepatitis C virus envelopeheparan sulfate interaction. J Virol  ...

Ralf Bartenschlager, 2013

Gene Therapy of Cancer: Translational Approaches from ...

Frecha C, Levy C, Cosset FL, Verhoeyen E. Advances in the field of lentivector- based transduction of T and B lymphocytes for gene therapy. Mol Ther 2010;18( 10):1748À57. Frecha C, Szecsi J, Cosset FL, Verhoeyen E. Strategies for targeting ...

Edmund C. Lattime, Stanton L. Gerson, 2013

Lentiviral Vectors and Gene Therapy

Emerg Infect Dis 11(3):411–416 Strang BL, Ikeda Y, Cosset FL, Collins MK, Takeuchi Y (2004) Characterization of HIV-1 vectors with gammaretrovirus envelope glycoproteins produced from stable packaging cells. Gene Ther 11(7): 591–598 ...

David Escors, Karine Breckpot, Frederick Arce, 2012

Human Antibody Therapeutics For Viral Disease

Barth H, Schnober EK, Zhang F, Linhardt RJ, Depla E, Boson B, Cosset FL, Patel AH, Blum HE, Baumert TF (2006) Viral and cellular determinants of the hepatitis C virus envelope-heparan sulfate interaction. J Virol 80:10579–10590 Bartosch ...

Scott K. Dessain, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COSSET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cosset is used in the context of the following news items.

Part 16. Customer Excellence: Be a (B)Rogue Trader!

Businesses that go out of their way as part of their natural practice and appeal, to cosset you with great service. In short, they go (B)Rogue! «UK Progressive Magazine, Jul 15»

Waynesboro student heals through artwork

WAYNESBORO--Petting her new bunny Cosset, Amélie Candelier flips through her artwork collection. Amélie is like other energetic ... «The Daily Progress, Jul 15»

Sam Leith: Fight jihadis by keeping calm and having fun

Children's writer Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, thinks panic over traffic accidents and paedophiles is causing us to cosset our ... «Evening Standard, Jun 15»

No ordinary love

And then, you cherish. You cosset. You comfort. You love her as love is. At 17 to be in love is so passé. So ordinary. So expected. So human? «Mid-Day, Jun 15»

Confessions of a fashion victim: It's time to forgo the skyscraper …

Yet, there are many of my sisters who have yet to awaken to the fact that clothes are meant to cosset not cripple. Which is why I wanted to laugh ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jun 15»

John B Keane: A severe shortage of English fivers in the pub tills of …

Bord Failte is inclined to cosset and pamper the American, the Canadian and the native English. They have never aimed at the best customer ... «Limerick Leader, Jun 15»

Gardening: Weeds

Why cosset precious garden plants by removing these all-too-successful interlopers? As a general rule, garden plants have undergone ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»

Countdown To The Eisners 2015 - Best Painter/Multimedia Artist …

Kerascoët, or Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset, provided visually stunning pages all throughout Beautiful Darkness. The watercolors ... «Bleeding Cool News, Jun 15»

The Camry Hybrid in a revamped avatar

It's meant to cosset the backbenchers in utmost comfort and that's quite evident in the way it rides and handles. The steering is extremely light ... «Mid-Day, Jun 15»

Have your say: Binge drinking

There's no reason why we shouldn't, except, maybe if we continue to cosset the ticking time bomb of social unease by allowing delusionally ... «Northern Advocate, Jun 15»