Villa
['vɪlə]
Definition
(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.
(noun.) detached or semidetached suburban house.
(noun.) Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
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Definition
(n.) A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.
Typist: Nora
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Country house, country seat.
Edited by Allison
Definition
n. a country residence or seat: a suburban mansion—also Vill.—ns. Vill′adom villas collectively people living in them; Vill′āge any small assemblage of houses less than a town: (orig.) a number of houses inhabited by persons near the residence of a proprietor or farmer: (law) a manor a parish or the outlying part of a parish; Vill′age-commū′nity a clan of settlers who built their huts on a tract of land and laid out common fields which they cultivated in common as one family the land being divided out every few years into family lots but the whole continuing to be cultivated by the community subject to the established customs as interpreted in the village-council by the sense of the village elders—the so-called Mark system of Sir Henry Maine; Vill′āger an inhabitant of a village; Vill′āgery (Shak.) a district of villages; Vill′akin Villanette′ a little villa.—adj. Villat′ic (Milt.) pertaining to a farm.
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Examples
- We were outside the villa. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She then called for Miss Morrison, a young lady who lives in the next villa, and the two went off together to their meeting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A few minutes later our driver pulled up at a neat little red-brick villa with overhanging eaves which stood by the road. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- They brought the cars around to the front of the villa and we loaded them with the hospital equipment which was piled in the hallway. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This place, Deep Dene House, is a big modern villa of staring brick, standing back in its own grounds, with a laurel-clumped lawn in front of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The young couple had a house near Berkeley Square and a small villa at Roehampton, among the banking colony there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was trouble in the fine villa at Highbury. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At this time in our story, the whole St. Clare establishment is, for the time being, removed to their villa on Lake Pontchartrain. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We came up the drive to the villa. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We sat around the table and drank two bottles of the wine that had been left in the cellar of the villa. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A crowd of morbid sightseers were still gathered round Deep Dene House, which was just such a suburban villa as I had pictured. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I sat in the reception hail of the villa, waiting for Catherine Barkley to come down. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She was not in the garden and I went to the side door of the villa where the ambulances drove up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There were the long rows of bare trees, the big hotels and the closed villas. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There were some lovely villas. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There was little difficulty in finding him, for he inhabited one of those villas which I have mentioned. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We came into the town past the factories and then the houses and villas and I saw that many more houses had been hit. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We voyaged by steamer down the Lago di Lecco, through wild mountain scenery, and by hamlets and villas, and disembarked at the town of Lecco. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There were many houses back in the trees from the shore and up the shore a way was a village with stone houses, some villas on the hills and a church. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- When the moon came out again we could see white villas on the shore on the slopes of the mountain and thewhite road where it showed through the trees. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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