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UK
/vˈɪlɐ/
]
[ US /ˈvɪɫə/ ]
[ US /ˈvɪɫə/ ]
NOUN
- country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard
- detached or semidetached suburban house
- pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds
How To Use villa In A Sentence
- Imagine an anthropologist visiting a remote tribal village to study its inhabitants.
- Most choose to buy in more affordable villages a little way away. Times, Sunday Times
- They were close to a little village which the English called Agincourt, and, though that is not quite its right name, it is what we have called the battle ever since. Young Folks' History of England
- Under this arrangement, the men of each village were organized into ‘tithings ' and expected to answer for each other's good behaviour.
- It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite. Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire
- Some people believe that Richard III did not murder his nephews and was not the villain he is generally thought to have been.
- On Friday, we thought we'd try lunch at the Stag and Hounds in Binfield, but there wasn't a table free, so we'd headed back homewards and went to the poshest place in the village.
- Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more. 1601
- Initially von Leeb, using troops borrowed from von Bock, was able to mount a concerted attack both on the defensive positions of the southern suburbs and the area north of the main rail line to Moscow, their objective being the historic village now a suburb of Schlüsselburg, right on Lake Ladoga. Deathride
- We were tired but we managed to push along to the next village.