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VILLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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 3
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 4
Meaning:
Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)
Synonyms:
Doroteo Arango; Francisco Villa; Pancho Villa; Villa
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
revolutionary; revolutionist; subversive; subverter (a radical supporter of political or social revolution)
Context examples:
Mr. Littimer, clearing his throat behind his hand with a respectable short cough, changed legs, and went on: “At last, when there had been, upon the whole, a good many words and reproaches, Mr. James he set off one morning, from the neighbourhood of Naples, where we had a villa (the young woman being very partial to the sea), and, under pretence of coming back in a day or so, left it in charge with me to break it out, that, for the general happiness of all concerned, he was”—here an interruption of the short cough—“gone. But Mr. James, I must say, certainly did behave extremely honourable; for he proposed that the young woman should marry a very respectable person, who was fully prepared to overlook the past, and who was, at least, as good as anybody the young woman could have aspired to in a regular way: her connexions being very common.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The outlying villas closed up thicker and thicker, until their shoulders met, and we were driving between a double line of houses with garish shops at the corners, and such a stream of traffic as I had never seen, roaring down the centre.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very nicely, and lived generally in good style.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This place, Deep Dene House, is a big modern villa of staring brick, standing back in its own grounds, with a laurel-clumped lawn in front of it.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was little difficulty in finding him, for he inhabited one of those villas which I have mentioned.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The house of the famous official was a fine villa with green lawns stretching down to the Thames.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a red begonia just the same color as one that is kept in a pot in the window of a certain villa in Streatham—but I am drifting into private reminiscence.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort—no struggle;—but to have sunk down in the silken snare; fallen asleep on the flowers covering it; wakened in a southern clime, amongst the luxuries of a pleasure villa: to have been now living in France, Mr. Rochester's mistress; delirious with his love half my time—for he would—oh, yes, he would have loved me well for a while.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They overhung the archway, thrust themselves between the bars of the great gate with a sweet welcome to passers-by, and lined the avenue, winding through lemon trees and feathery palms up to the villa on the hill.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In a study, an international team of researchers that included the University of Colorado Boulder's Paola Villa, corresponding author of the study and an adjoint curator at the university's Museum of Natural History, reports findings that Neanderthals living in Europe from about 55 to 40 thousand years ago traveled away from their caves to collect resin from pine trees, which they used to glue stone tools to handles made of wood or bone.
(Neanderthals used resin 'glue' for tools, National Science Foundation)
