Meaning of villa | Babel Free

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1. A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
   Ancient-Rome
2. A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat
3. A surname from Spanish.
4. A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
5. A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
   UK
6. A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street
7. Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham
8. Francisco, (Doroteo Arango, “Pancho Villa” ), 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
9. One’s village or ancestral homeland.
   Nigeria, slang
10. One’s village or ancestral homeland
11. a type of detached or semi-detached (usually luxury) house, in the country or suburbs, or used for holidays at the seaside. They have a villa at the seaside. villa فيلا: مَنزِل بالضَّواحي вила casa de campo letní sídlo, vila die Villa villa; feriehus βίλαchalet, casa de campo; villa, quinta villa ویلا huvila villaוילה देहाती बंगला vila villa villa einbÿlishús, villa; (sveita)setur villa 別荘 대저택, (큰) 별장 vila villa vila villavilla; feriehuswilla بانډه ( صيفيه )، له ښاره وتلى تفريحي كور casa de c...
    usually
12. A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard
13. The often large, luxurious country house of a well-to-do person.
14. A country estate with a substantial house.
15. Chiefly British A house in a middle-class suburb.
    Chiefly British
16. (Historical Terms) (in ancient Rome) a country house, usually consisting of farm buildings and residential quarters around a courtyard
17. a large and usually luxurious country residence
18. Brit a detached or semidetached suburban house
    Brit
19. NZ a medium-sized suburban house standing in its own grounds
    NZ
20. (Biography) Francisco (franˈsisko), called Pancho Villa, original name Doroteo Arango. ?1877–1923, Mexican revolutionary leader
    Pancho Villa,

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Examples

“This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.”

“They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say.”

“Olsson and Herd tussled off the ball at a free-kick before Olsson fell to the ground. Assistant referee Darren Cann signalled for a penalty and Dowd sent Herd off to the amazement of the Villa faithful.”

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