Retreat vs Villa - What's the difference?
retreat | villa |
The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
* Shakespeare
The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
* L'Estrange
* Dryden
A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
A period of meditation, prayer or study.
Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
A signal for a military withdrawal.
A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
A military ceremony to lower the flag.
(chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
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 retreat and villa
is that retreat is the act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant 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 retreat
is to withdraw military forces.retreat
English
Noun
(en noun)- In a retreat he outruns any lackey.
- He built his son a house of pleasure, and spared no cost to make a delicious retreat .
- That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat / From sudden April showers, a shelter from the heat.
See also
* religious retreatAnagrams
* *villa
English
(wikipedia villa)Noun
(en noun)citation
