A large country house or estate; a type of rural mansion (also spelled 'villa').
From Latin 'villa,' originally a Roman country estate or farmhouse. The term preserved the sense of rural elegance and privacy in European languages.
Roman 'villas' were actually the vacation homes of wealthy city-dwellers—the word has meant 'fancy second home' for over 2,000 years, making it one of history's most consistent status symbols.
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