VILLA
What does "VILLA" mean?
A large, comfortable country house or holiday residence, often in a warm region.
Meanings
- A grand or comfortable house, especially one in the country or used as a holiday home. They rented a villa in Tuscany with a pool and olive trees.
- In Roman times, a self-sufficient country estate with its house and farm buildings. Archaeologists uncovered a Roman villa complete with mosaic floors. technical
Did you know?
- The word 'villain' descends from the same Latin root as 'villa': a 'villanus' was simply a farmhand on a country estate, and the slur came only later from class contempt.
Word origin
From Latin 'villa' (country house, farm estate), related to 'vicus' (village); the same root gives us 'village' and 'villain' (originally a farm worker).
Remember it
A VILLA has two L's like two long pillars holding up the porch.
A little poem
Shuttered all winter-
the villa keeps the summer
folded in its walls.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the peasant resent the estate owner? Because history made him the villain and the boss the villa.
What it teaches
Every grand house is built on the unrecorded labor of someone the language later forgot to thank.
Quick facts
What does VILLA mean?
A large, comfortable country house or holiday residence, often in a warm region.
Is VILLA a valid word?
Yes — VILLA is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is VILLA?
VILLA has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does VILLA come from?
From Latin 'villa' (country house, farm estate), related to 'vicus' (village); the same root gives us 'village' and 'villain' (originally a farm worker).
What can VILLA teach us?
Every grand house is built on the unrecorded labor of someone the language later forgot to thank.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.