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villas

noun

plural of villa

as in mansions

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

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Recent Examples of villas The hotel has a total of 59 rooms and suites, residences, villas, and houses for guests to choose from, including a few options in the original farmhouse, or stancija. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026 Biere pointed out that the new villas will have six different floor plans and a performing center to be named the Stacey Baker Hall. — Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026 Hotels added stand-alone villas staffed by the same teams but set apart from the main property, such as the House at Lizard Island, on the Great Barrier Reef. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026 Further titles from the Arab world include Concrete Land by Asmahan Bkerat, following an Afro-Palestinian Bedouin family on the outskirts of Amman as luxury villas close in around them. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

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Continue reading … ISLAND CONFIDENTIAL — Behind closed doors in Palm Beach, a secret 'shadow' market hides $300M mega-mansions.

— , FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Take out the property’s resident boat Bella from the Hamilton Harbor Yacht Club for a view of the Port Royal mega-mansions and a chance at dolphin spotting.

— Harriet Elton, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of mansions

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Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026

Definition of haciendas

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Another valuable asset in these estates are publicity rights, which protect the use of the celebrity’s name or likeness, such as the use of Parton’s face on a T-shirt sold for profit.

— Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Several other homes and estates in the area have been sold between $20 million and $40 million.

— Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of estates

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For all its flowering of original thought and creativity, the Renaissance was ultimately a time of patronage, and the patrons both held the power and used it to enrich their own palaces and places of worship.

— Christopher Koopman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
Such parties, often thrown by the grandes dames of Washington in their palaces dotted around town, were an opportunity for political rivals to meet in fizzing comity over catered meals and coupes of Bollinger.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of palaces

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The hotel has a total of 59 rooms and suites, residences, villas, and houses for guests to choose from, including a few options in the original farmhouse, or stancija.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
The king tides came knocking Then, in August, came the first big king tide that sent punishing waves slamming into houses along the boardwalk.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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