Homestead vs Villa - What's the difference?
homestead | villa |
a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm
the place that is one's home
(South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family
The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
* W. Tooke
A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
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(UK) A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.
(Ancient Rome) a country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
As nouns the difference between homestead and villa
is that homestead is a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm while villa is a house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.As a verb homestead
is to acquire or settle on land as a homestead.As a proper noun Villa is
Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham.homestead
English
Noun
(wikipedia homestead) (en noun)- (Dryden)
- We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural.
See also
* hstead * homesteading * smallholdingvilla
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(wikipedia villa)Noun
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