Villa vs Hotel - What's the difference?
villa | hotel |
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.
The letter H' in the NATO phonetic alphabet. (This word is not translated, and is ' hotel in all languages.)
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As nouns the difference between villa and hotel
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 hotel is a large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France.As a proper noun Villa
is Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham.villa
English
(wikipedia villa)Noun
(en noun)citation