villa

Meanings

1. A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
2. A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
3. One’s village or ancestral homeland.

1. A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

1. A surname from Spanish.
2. Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham

Etymology

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