(n.) A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.
Example Sentences:
(1) When not at the palace, Edward stayed at Fort Belvedere, his bolthole in Windsor Great Park.
(2) After the family’s relocation to the north inner city, Joyce attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit-run school on Great Denmark Street.
(3) 360 fibre reinforced "Belvedere bridges" have been placed to date with a success rate of 98%.
(4) For the Earl of Belvedere, the only solution was to block it from sight by building a massive wall.
(5) Although nominally an "all-ability" school, according to this year's DfE performance tables almost 100% of Belvedere's pupils are in the middle to high prior attainment band, with far fewer pupils on free school meals than the surrounding area.
(6) It states: "The home secretary asks me to confirm the information conveyed to you orally … that you will arrange for the interception of telephone communications between Fort Belvedere and Buckingham Palace on the one hand and the continent of Europe on the other."
(7) Deliberately ruinous in style, this is the largest folly in Ireland and stands in the grounds of Belvedere House, where the same loathsome Earl locked up his wife for 31 years after accusing her of adultery with another brother.
(8) Born in Belvedere in Kent, the son of a foundry worker, he grew up partly with his grandmother in Swindon, where he went to Jennings school until the age of 15.
(9) Far from announcing plans for an emergency austerity budget, when – three days after the ONS released the growth figures – Cameron addressed a gathering of British business chiefs at the Belvedere hotel in Davos his line was that an incoming Tory government needed to show that it was serious about tackling the deficit but did not need to make "extensive" cuts.
(10) Late into the night in the main Belvedere hotel the networking went on.
(11) B is for Belvedere During the day the action in Davos is focused on the conference centre, an ugly 1970s building which has recently been modernised and extended.
(12) If you doubt that, take a look at the most fawned-over convert, the Belvedere academy in Liverpool, which came into the state sector almost 10 years ago.
(13) As they pretend to be the Apollo Belvedere or the Three Graces, Reynolds's people stand or sit in spectacular fictitious settings that weave a peculiarly British fairytale.
(14) Seized by a Nazi collector just before the outbreak of the second world war, the painting was for many years the proud possession of the national Belvedere gallery in Vienna.
(15) After hours, members of the WEF normally repair to the Belvedere, the hotel where all the best parties are held and where many of the dignitaries stay.
(16) Bedroom at Belvedere Hotel And the great thing about Scuol is that you're not made to feel a wierdo for doing this.
(17) Q is for queue Unless you are a head of state, there is no escaping the long lines to get into the conference centre – and the Belvedere – at peak times of the day.
(18) Life president, Federation for Detached Youth Work, Leicester and Chair of Trustees, Belvedere Community Activity Centre, Liverpool.
(19) Yet the paintings hung in the Austrian Gallery at Belvedere palace, in Vienna, with a placard inscribed: "Adele Bloch-Bauer 1907, bequeathed by Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer."
(20) Belvedere Hotel, Scuol I ski down to Ftan, noticing that the T-bar back up could do with an upgrade, and finally ski a 12km "dream run" to the village of Sent.
Villa
Definition:
(n.) A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.
Example Sentences:
(1) We negotiated with Villa, when he was one of the world's best.
(2) According to the striker in question, the Villa manager received more than he deserved.
(3) Aston Villa Football Club has parted company this evening with manager Paul Lambert ,” it read.
(4) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
(5) Nobody said anything to me.” The victory was Villa’s second over Albion in five days.
(6) Two more wins against the claret and blues of West Ham and Aston Villa would take Tottenham to 72 points, equalling their Premier League record haul set last season.
(7) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
(8) The game was at Villa Park and I remember Man United on the day kicked us.
(9) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
(10) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
(11) Keane, now assistant manager at Aston Villa and with the Republic of Ireland, is heavily critical of Ferguson for pursuing the legal case and says he went to see the United manager to tell him he was taking on the wrong men and that it would have serious repercussions for the club.
(12) There will be no further comment from the club at this stage.” The defeat at the KC Stadium – a fifth in a row in the league – meant Villa sank into the bottom three for the first time this season, having briefly topped the table in August after winning three of their opening four matches.
(13) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(14) Moreover, with the long-term injury casualty Younès Kaboul still to feature in pre-season, Jan Vertonghen out with ankle damage and William Gallas released, Villas-Boas now has only one fit, senior centre-half in Michael Dawson.
(15) Overall I thought we deserved the win.” It is not difficult to understand why Villa have failed to break opponents down recently.
(16) Those who bought "luxury' villas for €1m in the good times would be lucky to get a third for them now – if, that is, they could ever find a buyer happy to tolerate living on an unfinished complex.
(17) Damien Comolli, the club's director of football strategy, has confirmed Liverpool are interested in Luis Suárez of Ajax and Aston Villa's Ashley Young, although both deals are fraught with difficulty in this transfer window.
(18) Applauded off at half-time, Villa carried on where they left off and struck twice in the first 15 minutes of the second half.
(19) Here's Messi playing in Adriano, but his cross evades Villa in the middle.
(20) When, in stoppage time, the 33-year-old striker swept a first-time shot home any lingering Villa optimism was extinguished.