villa

CEFRB1

/ˈvɪlə/

noun

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01
noun
A large house, often in the countryside or near the sea.
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noun
Extra detail
A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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One’s village or ancestral homeland.
A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

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This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/6/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
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 paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say.
1905, E. Nesbit, chapter 1, in The Railway Children, page 1

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Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.