name
Meaning 1
A surname from Spanish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
villa
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ˈvɪlə/
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South-Asia: /ˈvɪllɑ/
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rhymes with -ɪlə
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CMU ARPABET: V IH1 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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noun
Meaning 3
A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
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noun
Meaning 4
A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 5
One’s village or ancestral homeland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Nigeria, slang
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noun
Meaning 6
A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ancient-Rome
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noun
Meaning 7
pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: country house
noun
Meaning 8
country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: country house
noun
Meaning 9
detached or semidetached suburban house
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: house
noun
Meaning 10
Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Pancho Villa, Francisco Villa, Doroteo Arango
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.
Borrowed from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.
Across languages
Translations
94 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: vilë — a house used as a retreat
- Arabic: فِيلَا (fīlā) — a house used as a retreat
- Arabic: دَارَة (dāra) — a house used as a retreat
- Arabic: فيلّا (villa) — a house used as a retreat
- Arabic: فِلَّة — a house used as a retreat
- Armenian: վիլլա (villa) — a house used as a retreat
- Azerbaijani: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Belarusian: ві́ла (víla) — a house used as a retreat
- Belarusian: да́ча (dáča) — a house used as a retreat
- Bulgarian: ви́ла (víla) — a house used as a retreat
- Burmese: ဗီလာ (bila) — a house used as a retreat
- Catalan: vil·la — a house used as a retreat
- Chinese Cantonese: 別墅 /别墅 (bit6 seoi5, bit6 seoi6) — a house used as a retreat
- Chinese Mandarin: 別墅 /别墅 (biéshù) — a house used as a retreat
- Czech: vila — a house used as a retreat
- Danish: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Dutch: buitenhuis — a house used as a retreat
- Dutch: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Estonian: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Estonian: suvila — a house used as a retreat
- Finnish: huvila — a house used as a retreat
- Finnish: villa — a house used as a retreat
- French: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Georgian: ვილა (vila) — a house used as a retreat
- German: Villa — a house used as a retreat
- German: Anwesen — a house used as a retreat
- German: Landhaus — a house used as a retreat
- German: Herrenhaus — a house used as a retreat
- German: Gutshaus — a house used as a retreat
- German: Landgut — a house used as a retreat
- Greek: βίλα (víla) — a house used as a retreat
- Greek: εξοχικό (exochikó) — a house used as a retreat
- Hebrew: וִילָה (víla) — a house used as a retreat
- Hindi: विला (vilā) — a house used as a retreat
- Hungarian: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Hungarian: nyaraló — a house used as a retreat
- Icelandic: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Ido: vilao — a house used as a retreat
- Ido: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Indonesian: vila — a house used as a retreat
- Italian: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Japanese: 別荘 (bessō) — a house used as a retreat
- Japanese: ビラ (bira) — a house used as a retreat
- Japanese: ヴィラ (vira) — a house used as a retreat
- Japanese: ヴィッラ (virra) — a house used as a retreat
- Kazakh: вилла (villa) — a house used as a retreat
- Khmer: វីឡា (viilaa) — a house used as a retreat
- Korean: 별장 (byeoljang) — a house used as a retreat
- Korean: 빌라 (billa) — a house used as a retreat
- Kyrgyz: вилла (villa) — a house used as a retreat
- Lao: ວິນລາ (win lā) — a house used as a retreat
- Latvian: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Lithuanian: vila — a house used as a retreat
- Macedonian: вила (vila) — a house used as a retreat
- Malay: vila — a house used as a retreat
- Mongolian: вилла (villa) — a house used as a retreat
- Norwegian Bokmål: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Norwegian Nynorsk: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Iranian Persian: ویلا (vilâ) — a house used as a retreat
- Iranian Persian: کوشْک (kušk) — a house used as a retreat
- Polish: willa — a house used as a retreat
- Polish: dacza — a house used as a retreat
- Portuguese: casa de campo — a house used as a retreat
- Portuguese: casa de praia — a house used as a retreat
- Romanian: vilă — a house used as a retreat
- Russian: ви́лла (vílla) — a house used as a retreat
- Russian: да́ча (dáča) — a house used as a retreat
- Russian: за́городный дом (zágorodnyj dom) — a house used as a retreat
- Serbo-Croatian: ви̏ла — a house used as a retreat
- Serbo-Croatian: vȉla — a house used as a retreat
- Slovak: vila — a house used as a retreat
- Slovene: vila — a house used as a retreat
- Spanish: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Spanish: quinta — a house used as a retreat
- Spanish: casa de campo — a house used as a retreat
- Spanish: pazo — a house used as a retreat
- Swedish: fritidshus — a house used as a retreat
- Swedish: semesterhus — a house used as a retreat
- Swedish: sommarhus — a house used as a retreat
- Tagalog: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Tajik: вилла (villa) — a house used as a retreat
- Tajik: кӯшк (küšk) — a house used as a retreat
- Thai: วิลล่า — a house used as a retreat
- Turkish: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Turkish: köşk — a house used as a retreat
- Turkish: kasır — a house used as a retreat
- Turkish: yalı — a house used as a retreat
- Turkmen: willa — a house used as a retreat
- Ukrainian: ві́лла (vílla) — a house used as a retreat
- Ukrainian: да́ча (dáča) — a house used as a retreat
- Urdu: وِیلا (vīlā) — a house used as a retreat
- Uyghur: ۋىللا (willa) — a house used as a retreat
- Uzbek: villa — a house used as a retreat
- Vietnamese: biệt thự — a house used as a retreat
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