villa en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈvɪlə/
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- /ˈvɪllɑ/ (South-Asia)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.
Meanings
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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.
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/6/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:What I commissioned you to get for me, and anything you see suitable to my Tusculan villa, I should be glad if you will, as you say in your letter, procure for me, only don't put yourself to any inconvenience. The truth is, there is no other place that gives me complete rest after all my worries and hard work.
1920, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order, volume 1 (hardcover), London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., page 3:
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(UK) A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
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.
1905, E. Nesbit, chapter 1, in The Railway Children, page 1:
- (Nigeria, slang) One’s village or ancestral homeland.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| villas | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
villaless · Villan · villadom · Villa Hills · Villa Grove · Lake Villa · villakin · villalike
Relateds
Translations (94)
sh ви̏ла (a house used as a retreat) · arz فيلّا (a house used as a retreat) · tg вилла (a house used as a retreat) · hy վիլլա (a house used as a retreat) · da villa (a house used as a retreat) · de Villa (a house used as a retreat) · uk да́ча (a house used as a retreat) · et suvila (a house used as a retreat) · uk ві́лла (a house used as a retreat) · ms vila (a house used as a retreat) · ur وِیلا (a house used as a retreat) · ug ۋىللا (a house used as a retreat) · es casa de campo (a house used as a retreat) · mn вилла (a house used as a retreat) · io villa (a house used as a retreat) · km វីឡា (a house used as a retreat) · es pazo (a house used as a retreat) · vi biệt thự (a house used as a retreat) · he וִילָה (a house used as a retreat) · tg кӯшк (a house used as a retreat) · ja ビラ (a house used as a retreat) · sk vila (a house used as a retreat) · pt casa de campo (a house used as a retreat) · fr villa (a house used as a retreat) · it villa (a house used as a retreat) · sv semesterhus (a house used as a retreat) · lt vila (a house used as a retreat) · az villa (a house used as a retreat) · io vilao (a house used as a retreat) · hu villa (a house used as a retreat) · kk вилла (a house used as a retreat) · tr köşk (a house used as a retreat) · tr villa (a house used as a retreat) · sh vȉla (a house used as a retreat) · hu nyaraló (a house used as a retreat) · sv fritidshus (a house used as a retreat) · ru да́ча (a house used as a retreat) · ja 別荘 (a house used as a retreat) · bg ви́ла (a house used as a retreat) · nn villa (a house used as a retreat) · ca vil·la (a house used as a retreat) · hi विला (a house used as a retreat) · nl villa (a house used as a retreat) · be да́ча (a house used as a retreat) · acw فِلَّة (a house used as a retreat) · ko 별장 (a house used as a retreat) · sl vila (a house used as a retreat) · fa-ira کوشْک (a house used as a retreat) · pt casa de praia (a house used as a retreat) · tr kasır (a house used as a retreat) · uz villa (a house used as a retreat) · de Herrenhaus (a house used as a retreat) · ru ви́лла (a house used as a retreat) · tl villa (a house used as a retreat) · ar دَارَة (a house used as a retreat) · de Gutshaus (a house used as a retreat) · my ဗီလာ (a house used as a retreat) · pl dacza (a house used as a retreat) · ru за́городный дом (a house used as a retreat) · be ві́ла (a house used as a retreat) · tr yalı (a house used as a retreat) · is villa (a house used as a retreat) · ja ヴィラ (a house used as a retreat) · ja ヴィッラ (a house used as a retreat) · pl willa (a house used as a retreat) · ar فِيلَا (a house used as a retreat) · nl buitenhuis (a house used as a retreat) · yue 別墅 /别墅 (a house used as a retreat) · ro vilă (a house used as a retreat) · de Landgut (a house used as a retreat) · sq vilë (a house used as a retreat) · cs vila (a house used as a retreat) · th วิลล่า (a house used as a retreat) · el εξοχικό (a house used as a retreat) · de Anwesen (a house used as a retreat) · tk willa (a house used as a retreat) · es quinta (a house used as a retreat) · et villa (a house used as a retreat) · ky вилла (a house used as a retreat) · fi villa (a house used as a retreat) · cmn 別墅 /别墅 (a house used as a retreat) · mk вила (a house used as a retreat) · fi huvila (a house used as a retreat) · ka ვილა (a house used as a retreat) · el βίλα (a house used as a retreat) · de Landhaus (a house used as a retreat) · lo ວິນລາ (a house used as a retreat) · sv sommarhus (a house used as a retreat) · fa-ira ویلا (a house used as a retreat) · lv villa (a house used as a retreat) · id vila (a house used as a retreat) · es villa (a house used as a retreat) · nb villa (a house used as a retreat) · ko 빌라 (a house used as a retreat)