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Countryside vs Villa - What's the difference?

countryside | villa |

As nouns the difference between countryside and villa

is that countryside is a rural landscape while villa is a house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.

countryside

English

Noun

(rural)
  • (en noun) (typically used with the definite article)
  • A rural landscape.
  • A rural area, or the rural part of a larger area, as in "the Swedish countryside."
  • villa

    English

    (wikipedia villa)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/6/1 citation
  • , passage=This villa' was long and low and white, and severe after its manner?: for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of ' villas all the world over.}}
  • (UK) A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.
  • (Ancient Rome) a country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
  • See also

    * dacha ----