villae

Noun (1)

villa (plural villas)

1. A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
   • 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...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
2. (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...1905, E. Nesbit, chapter 1, in The Railway Children, page 1
3. (Nigeria, slang) One’s village or ancestral homeland.

Noun (2)

villa (plural villae)

1. (Ancient-Rome) A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

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