Usage Note
Villa in French can mean a luxury villa but more broadly refers to any detached single-family house, especially in suburban or seaside contexts. Une villa en bord de mer is a seaside house. The word is borrowed from Latin/Italian and is the same as English 'villa.' Plural is regular: des villas.
Examples
"Ils louent une villa près de la mer en été."
Natural Translation
They rent a villa near the sea in summer.
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