Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The often large, luxurious country house of a well-to-do person.
- noun A country estate with a substantial house.
- noun Chiefly British A house in a middle-class suburb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A country-seat; a rural or suburban mansion; a country residence, properly one of some size and pretension, though the name is commonly misapplied, especially in Great Britain, to a cottage, or to one of the class of cheap houses built on speculation in the suburbs of a city; in old English law, a manor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
house , oftenlarger and moreexpensive thanaverage , in thecountryside or on thecoast , often used as aretreat . - noun UK A
family house, oftensemi-detached , in amiddle class street . - noun a country house, with
farm buildings around acourtyard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)
- noun detached or semidetached suburban house
- noun pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds
- noun country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The word is from the Latin villa which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved andvella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.
Walking 1969
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The word is from the Latin villa which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved andvella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried.
Walking 1862
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He built himself a palace, which he called a villa, and which was the most fanciful of structures, and full of every beautiful object which rare taste and boundless wealth could procure, from undoubted
Endymion Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Located in Torslanda, Sweden, this country-side villa is anything but ordinary.
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This particular villa is located on the beach of Kamala in Phuket, Thailand and is currently up for sale, listed at a cost of $8.66 million.
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This villa is said to be the first of the 6 planned luxury residences in this exclusive area.
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This villa is located in the West of Sweden and comes from Wingardhs design studio.
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There are beautiful things here – the first account of the discovery of the skating rink in the depths of a ruined villa is unforgettable.
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño – review Philip Hensher 2010
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The villa is located in Western Minneapolis and it was designed for a couple and their two children who will certainly not get bored of these landscapes any time soon.
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Located in Miami, Florida, this luxurious and intriguing villa is the former crib of Lenny Kravitz.
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Holiday Villas
June 22, 2011