villa

Plural: villae, villas

Noun

• A large country house or estate, especially in ancient Rome.
• Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)
• detached or semidetached suburban house
• country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard
• pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds
• A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
• A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
• One’s village or ancestral homeland.
• A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

Examples

• She imagined her Scrabble board becoming a grand villa of words, full of bonus rooms.

Synonyms

Doroteo Arango, Francisco Villa, Pancho Villa

Related Words

dacha