VILLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Villa mean? 

• VILLA (noun)
  The noun VILLA has 4 senses:

1. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)

2. detached or semidetached suburban house

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

4. pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds

  Familiarity information: VILLA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VILLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Doroteo Arango; Francisco Villa; Pancho Villa; Villa

Instance hypernyms:

revolutionary; revolutionist; subversive; subverter (a radical supporter of political or social revolution)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Detached or semidetached suburban house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("villa" is a kind of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("villa" is a kind of...):

country house (a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("villa" is a kind of...):

country house (a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country)

 Context examples 

We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its own grounds.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No letter or telegram had come to me at Southampton, and I reached the little villa at Streatham about ten o'clock that night in a fever of alarm.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yesterday a lady, who has been known as Mme. Henri Fournaye, occupying a small villa in the Rue Austerlitz, was reported to the authorities by her servants as being insane.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am a hop merchant myself, and as I have an income of seven or eight hundred, we found ourselves comfortably off, and took a nice eighty-pound-a-year villa at Norbury.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are some charming little villas about Richmond.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You shall go to a place I have in the south of France: a whitewashed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a large and bright dwelling, rather a villa than a cottage, with a considerable garden which was already, in that Cornish air, well filled with spring flowers.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was agreed that, immediately after our union, we should proceed to Villa Lavenza and spend our first days of happiness beside the beautiful lake near which it stood.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"We continue to find evidence that the Neanderthals were not inferior primitives but were quite capable of doing things that have traditionally only been attributed to modern humans," said Villa.

(Neanderthals used resin 'glue' for tools, National Science Foundation)

At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais—a charming place, for the wide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is bounded on one side by the sea, on the other by the grand drive, lined with hotels and villas, while beyond lie orange orchards and the hills.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)