Residence vs Villa - What's the difference?
residence | villa |
The place where one lives.
* Macaulay
A building used as a home.
The place where a corporation is established.
The state of living in a particular place or environment.
* Sir M. Hale
The place where anything rests permanently.
* Milton
subsidence, as of a sediment
That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
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 residence and villa
is that residence is the place where one lives 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 proper noun Villa is
Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham.residence
English
Noun
(en noun)- Johnson took up his residence in London.
- The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
- But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Jeremy Taylor)
External links
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(wikipedia villa)Noun
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