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a large impressive residence
a millionaire with a luxurious villa in Mexico
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Recent Examples of villas
Though the villas weren’t designed based on ADA requirements, the staff is incredibly accommodating and their focus on guest comfort is apparent.
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Megan Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
Rental Escapes also works with Ski Butlers at each of its skiing villas.
—Roger Sands, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
North Sound Island roads don't reach the untouched northeastern side of Virgin Gorda, giving an exclusive, private island feel to the villas and resorts that dot the North Sound.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
This 400-acre property in the exclusive North Sound is villas and vacation homes first by design, giving it a low-density, community-style feel that offers visitors supreme seclusion.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
For ultimate privacy and security, people are renting private villas on Mustique, according to India.
—Beth Landman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2024
Two new luxe resorts have premiered this season — The Strand, with its own boat, and South Bank from Grace Bay Resorts — villas surrounded by water on all sides, serviced by a boat concierge for yacht owners, or guests who just want to take an excursion.
—Beth Landman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2024
The new 10-story tower adds two-person duo studios, one-bedroom villas, and two-bedroom villas.
—Megan Dubois, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
He's been all over Africa and loves the level of luxury there and saw a gap in the market in India, hence his decision to build this opulent lodge, with villas modelled after traditional Gujarati mansions with a private swimming pool.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Megan Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
Rental Escapes also works with Ski Butlers at each of its skiing villas.
—Roger Sands, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
North Sound Island roads don't reach the untouched northeastern side of Virgin Gorda, giving an exclusive, private island feel to the villas and resorts that dot the North Sound.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
This 400-acre property in the exclusive North Sound is villas and vacation homes first by design, giving it a low-density, community-style feel that offers visitors supreme seclusion.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
For ultimate privacy and security, people are renting private villas on Mustique, according to India.
—Beth Landman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2024
Two new luxe resorts have premiered this season — The Strand, with its own boat, and South Bank from Grace Bay Resorts — villas surrounded by water on all sides, serviced by a boat concierge for yacht owners, or guests who just want to take an excursion.
—Beth Landman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2024
The new 10-story tower adds two-person duo studios, one-bedroom villas, and two-bedroom villas.
—Megan Dubois, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
He's been all over Africa and loves the level of luxury there and saw a gap in the market in India, hence his decision to build this opulent lodge, with villas modelled after traditional Gujarati mansions with a private swimming pool.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for villas
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Tracking shots through vast mansions, majestic overhead shots of the stag hunt and water lapping at the camera lens as a French galley slowly sinks into the ocean serve to immerse the audience in the film’s 19th century European world.—
Scott Phillips,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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Montgomery officials say the need for such assistance is pervasive, even in one of the Washington region’s wealthiest counties, where large mansions and pristine golf courses are a short drive away from neighborhoods where going to a food shelter is a regular routine.—
Katie Shepherd,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Dec. 2024
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The eco-friendly bungalow, enveloped by lush tea estates, has been restored to its former glory by a collaboration between Uga and renowned Sri Lankan architect Channa Daswatte.—
Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes,
16 Dec. 2024
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Yet by the mid to late 18th century, early Americans began to embrace upholstered furniture, silk window treatments, and elaborate wallpapers, ranging from damasks and chinoiseries to large-scale, non-repeating murals like those seen at the Schuyler and Van Rensselaer estates in New York.—
Cornelia Powers,
Vogue,
16 Dec. 2024
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Crusader castles like Tibnin's, Ottoman architecture, Roman and Phoenician ruins.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
23 Dec. 2024
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The book’s long-story-by-the-fire quality, combined with its fairy-tale deployment of castles, unfair punishments, and the thrumming, powerful natural world, evokes the most affecting children’s literature.—
Amanda Parrish Morgan,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Villas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villas. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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