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Estate vs Villa - What's the difference?

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In uk terms the difference between estate and villa

is that estate is a housing estate while villa is a family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.

As nouns the difference between estate and villa

is that estate is state; condition 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.

estate

English

(wikipedia estate)

Noun

(en noun)
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:when I came to man's estate
  • *(Bible), (w) xii. 16
  • *:Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate .
  • (label) Status, rank.
  • *(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
  • *:God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men.
  • (label) The condition of one's fortunes; prosperity, possessions.
  • (label) A "person of estate"; a nobleman or noblewoman.
  • *:
  • *:And anone came oute of a chamber to hym the fayrest lady that euer he sawe & more rycher bysene than euer he sawe Quene Gueneuer or ony other estat Lo sayd they syre Bors here is the lady vnto whome we owe alle oure seruyse / and I trowe she be the rychest lady and the fayrest of alle the world
  • *(Bible), (w) vi. 21
  • *:Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee.
  • *(w) (1775-1864)
  • *:She's a duchess, a great estate .
  • (label) A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights ((Estates of the realm)).
  • *1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial 2007, p.115:
  • *:I am afraid that some of the nobles who are campaigning for it simply want to use the Estates to cut down the King's power and increase their own.
  • *2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p.202:
  • *:The three estates of feudal lords, clergy and royal officers met in separate chambers, and exercised an advisory role.
  • (label) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.
  • An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.
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  • The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
  • (label) A housing estate.
  • (label) The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
  • *(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • *:I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoeverconcerneth manifestly any great portion of people.
  • Synonyms

    * (estate car) estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon

    Derived terms

    * concurrent estate * council estate * estate agent * estate for life * estate in land * estate sale * estate tax * fourth estate * housing estate * industrial estate * leasehold estate * life estate * overspill estate * real estate * residuary estate * sink estate * third estate * trading estate

    See also

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    Anagrams

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    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 ----