villa
noun
a country residence or estate.
villa-like
-
a word derived from
villa.
Example Sentences
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The house they reside in—it cannot be called a farmstead—is a large villa-like mansion of recent erection, and fitted with every modern convenience.
From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies
Many of her picturesque seven hills were transformed into blooming fields or umbrageous groves, under which vast villa-like edifices clustered in Grecian repose.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
In the woods of Fiesole, a modern wanderer coming from Florence will find to the right of the high-road the ruins of an extensive villa-like edifice.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Felix Dahn
The first rays of the morning sun were resting like reddish gold on the tips of the forest trees which crowded close up to the white villa-like house.
From Gertrude's Marriage by W. Heimburg
Inside of twenty minutes the suburbs, with their long rows of villa-like buildings, and their wide and smoothly paved streets, began to swing past them.
From Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist by John T. McIntyre
