villa

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large, comfortable house, often in the countryside or by the sea and used for holidays.

   They rented a villa on the coast for the summer.

2. 2
   noun

   A country house in ancient Rome, with its surrounding farm buildings.

   Archaeologists uncovered a Roman villa near the river.

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

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