Villa

//ˈvɪlə// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Spanish.
  2. 2
    Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.

    "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."

  2. 2
    A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard. Ancient-Rome
  3. 3
    pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds wordnet
  4. 4
    A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street. UK

    "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."

  5. 5
    country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard wordnet
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  1. 6
    One’s village or ancestral homeland. Nigeria, slang
  2. 7
    detached or semidetached suburban house wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.

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