Vila vs Villa - What's the difference?
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(mythology) A type of fairy or nymph in Slavic mythology.
* 1874 , Elodie Lawton Mijatovic, Serbian Folklore :
*:"The Vilas (fairies ) live there, and they will certainly put out your eyes as they have put out mine, if you venture on their mountain."
* 1998 , Mike Dixon-Kennedy, Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend , page 302:
* 1995 , Albert Bates Lord, The Singer Resumes the Tale , page 52:
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
, 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.
Villa is a descendant of vila.
As nouns the difference between vila and villa
is that vila is a type of fairy or nymph in Slavic mythology 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.vila
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(en-noun)- Duly married, the couple lived for some time in peace and contentment, until one day Marko boasted that his wife was a vila , whereupon she put on her wings and flew away.
- She is answered, fittingly enough, by a vila , who declares that she is more beautiful than the girl.
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