Other forms: villas
A villa is a big expensive holiday house, often with a pool. Rent a villa, a villa in Spain, villa holidays.
In Britain it also names a particular kind of Victorian suburban house, which is a completely different thing from a holiday villa. The Roman villa was a working country estate rather than a retreat. Note that village and villain both come from the same Latin word for a country house.
1nounvillaA big expensive holiday house.
“They rented a villa with a private pool in the south of France.”
villa is a house.
Latin villa means a country house or farm. Village and villain come from the same country estate.
Proto-Indo-European
*weyḱ-
Latin
vīlla — country house
Italian
villa
English, today
villa
Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). a doublet of vill and ville.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA