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Townhouse vs Villa - What's the difference?

townhouse | villa |

As nouns the difference between townhouse and villa

is that townhouse is a row house 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.

townhouse

English

Alternative forms

town house

Noun

(en noun)
  • a row house
  • a house in an urban setting
  • (dated) town hall
  • 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 ----