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Definition of VILLAS

Villas
Villa Vil"la, n.; pl. Villas. [L. villa, LL. also village, dim. of L. vicus a village: cf. It. & F. villa. See Vicinity, and cf. Vill, Village, Villain.] A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance. --Dryden. Cowper.

Meaning of VILLAS from wikipedia

- Look up villas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Villas may refer to: Villas, Florida, United States Villas, Illinois, United States Villas, New Jersey...
- in Porto, Portugal, Villas-Boas is the second child and first son of Luís Filipe Manuel Henrique do Vale Peixoto de Sousa e Villas-Boas (born 29 February...
- origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming...
- Foreword in Villas-Bôas, Orlando; Villas-Bôas, Cláudio. Xingu: the Indians, Their Myths, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1973. "Claudio Villas-Boas -...
- estates. In 2013, the Medici villas were added to UNESCO's World Heritage list. The first Medici villas were the Villa del Trebbio and that at Ca****giolo...
- houses in the villas miseria might be made of mud and wood. There are villas miseria around and within most cities of the country. The villas draw people...
- Hadrian's Villa at Tibur (Tivoli) was in an area po****r with Romans of rank. Cicero had several villas. Pliny the Younger described his villas in his letters...
- conserved as part of the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto". In 1565 a priest, Paolo Almerico, on his retirement from...
- residents of the terrace of houses to the north, known as Co-operative Villas, demolished these houses, but took on the name for their own village. Derwentside...
- The Palladian villas of the Veneto are villas designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, all of whose buildings were erected in the Veneto, the...