Chateau vs Villa - What's the difference?
chateau | villa |
A French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.
Any stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
An estate where wine is produced and often bottled, especially in Bordeaux.
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 villa and chateau
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 château is a French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.As a proper noun Villa
is Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham.chateau
English
(wikipedia château)Alternative forms
* chateauNoun
References
* * * English nouns with irregular plurals ----villa
English
(wikipedia villa)Noun
(en noun)citation