villa

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds

   Our family villa is in the south of France.

2. 2
   noun

   a country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard

   My ancestors had a great villa outside of Rome.

3. 3
   noun

   a detached or semidetached suburban house

   There are many villas being built in Los Angeles.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   name

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   One’s village or ancestral homeland.

8. 8
   noun

   A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

Etymology

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