What is the difference between villa and euphemism?
villa | euphemism |
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.
(uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase it replaces.
(countable) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.
As nouns the difference between villa and euphemism
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 euphemism is (uncountable) the use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase it replaces.villa
English
(wikipedia villa)Noun
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