Word Meanings - VILLANETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small villa.

Related words: (words related to VILLANETTE)

• VILLAGERY
  Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.
• VILLANETTE
  A small villa.
• VILLANIZER
  One who villanizes.
• VILLA
  A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance. Dryden. Cowper. (more info) vicus a village: cf. It. & F. villa. See Vicinity, and cf. Vill,
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• VILLANEL
  A ballad. Cotton.
• VILLAINOUS
  1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine
• VILLANY
  See VILLAINY
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• VILLATIC
  Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural. "Tame villatic fowl." Milton.
• VILLANELLE
  A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close. E. W. Gosse.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• VILLANELLA
  An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.
• VILLAINY
  1. The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak. 2. Abusive, reproachful
• VILLANAGE
  The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted. Milton. Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the
• VILLAGER
  An inhabitant of a village. Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition. Shak.
• VILLANOUS; VILLANOUSLY; VILLANOUSNESS
  See ETC
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• VILLANIZE
  To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile. Were virtue by descent, a noble name Could never villanize his father's fame. Dryden.
• OUTVILLAIN
  To exceed in villainy.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ALGAROVILLA
  The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree . It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.