Villa vs Lodge - What's the difference?
villa | lodge |
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.
A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
Porter's]] or [[caretaker, caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
A local chapter of some fraternities]], such as [[freemason, freemasons.
(US) A local chapter of a trade union.
A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
A den or cave.
The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
(mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
A collection of objects lodged together.
* De Foe
A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
To stay in any place or shelter.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
As nouns the difference between villa and lodge
is that villa is a house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat while lodge is a building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.As a proper noun Villa
is Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham.As a verb lodge is
to be firmly fixed in a specified position.villa
English
(wikipedia villa)Noun
(en noun)citation
See also
* dacha ----lodge
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Raymond)
- the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
- The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges , that is, of about a thousand individuals.
Verb
(lodg)- I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
- The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
- The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
- Stay and lodge by me this night.
- Something holy lodges in that breast.
- The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge .