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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 Family beach villas will comfortably sleep five while the resort goes out of its way to offer activities for parents and kids to bond over. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 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

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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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There are also a host of homes and estates available for stays on those spacious grounds (several members of the Hardy family, in fact, also keep homes there).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
The traditional private wealth model assumes clients have spent years engaging with advisers, building portfolios, planning estates and developing long-term financial strategies.

— Joe Crome, Forbes.com, 1 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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Since at least the 1970s and 1980s, there have been incidents of gang rape of intoxicated, incapacitated women in fraternity houses.

— Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
Hyatt transformed the resort with six new buildings, including additional guest houses; all 117 rooms have also been overhauled, and there is a new pool as well as tons of new activities and programs.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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