Thesaurus results for VILLA

villa

noun

ˈvi-lə

Definition of villa

as in mansion

a large impressive residence a millionaire with a luxurious villa in Mexico

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Recent Examples of villa Each guesthouse has its own style and theme, with options from one-bedroom suites to three-bedroom villas that can sleep up to 12 people. — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 21 July 2026 Rooms The hotel’s 119 rooms, suites, and villas ache with old-world charm. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2026 There’s still more town to discover, more frescoes, more mosaics, more houses, more villas. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 Opened in 2022 as a rentable vacation home and events space, this white Mediterranean-style villa reinvented itself last year as a canal-side, five-room boutique hotel, complete with a boat dock, a spa, a garden, a saltwater pool and a chef. — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for villa

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Noun

The backstory Like so many of the neighborhood’s Victorian mansions, this 1881 building was originally a private home.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 July 2026
The event, to be held at the Newport mansion of Doris Duke, will feature an exhibition of Shearer’s photographs and a performance by the Alison Shearer Quartet — led by saxophonist Alison Shearer, daughter of John Shearer.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 July 2026

Definition of mansion

Noun

The hotel has 150 rooms and suites, all with plush furnishings and impressive, hacienda-style architecture.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2026
The whole family will stay in one of the resort’s 50 hacienda-style casitas, which include expansive patios with rainforest views.

— Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 14 July 2026

Definition of hacienda

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Evidently, Madonna was going industrial—the furthest possible cry from her lady-of-the-manor period in the early years of this century, when she was seen fetchingly clad in rustic tweeds.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
For a honeymoon, Ireland offers everything from castle estates and countryside manors to dramatic coastlines and quiet villages.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026

Definition of manor

Noun

Twenty-one hundred miles can already be walked, allowing visitors to view England’s famous headlands, cliffs, beaches, and dunes, as well as castles, oceanside resorts, and wartime relics.

— Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026
After careful restoration by the prestigious French winery ‌Château d'Yquem, the bottles were put on display at the castle earlier in June.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026

Definition of castle

Noun

Completed in 1935, two years before his death, the Coppins estate was the last and largest home Griffin designed.

— Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
The acquisition also brings the entire publishing catalog of genre-defining bluesman John Lee Hooker fully under BMG for the first time, following a deal in 2022 when BMG co-acquired the rights, with Fuji Music Group, from Hooker’s estate.

— Jem Aswad, Variety, 17 July 2026

Definition of estate

Noun

Burnham will then arrive at the palace, to meet with Charles and accept his request to form a government.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
The War In times of peace, Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) had hosted parties in their palace for all — even beggars were welcome.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026

Definition of palace

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Two Indian tourists picked her up and took her to a guest house, where another eight men were waiting, all of them drunk.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Natalie Boren, an executive VP at recruiter Career Group Companies, responsible for fashion staffing, is surprised how many interviewees cannot muster basic information about a fashion house’s most recent work — or even the creative director’s name.

— Cami Fateh, Vogue, 22 July 2026

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