What's the difference between chalet and villa?

Chalet


Definition:

  • (n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
  • (n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thankfully, mazot guests can also use the lounge and dining room in the Chalet Les Mazots, a lovely wood-panelled home full of antique chairs, chests and cabinets, built by a family of silk manufacturers from Leon who chose the location for their farm for its south-facing views of Mont Blanc.
  • (2) "We tried to get in contact with her at the chalet and we couldn't – she'd left," said her mother Helen, who was at the Rosa Khutor slopes with her father Pete.
  • (3) As a child growing up in the 1960s she loved comics and books including Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School stories , but a career as a writer was not on her radar because she never came across black writers or characters.
  • (4) It also has catered chalets in Italy, such as Chalet Heidi in Arabba , in the Dolomites, catered for the week 3 February for £629pp.
  • (5) But of us four girls since, Pippa died of cancer, Gilly was killed in a plane crash (on the way to my chalet in Switzerland) and Penny – the brightest of us all, the head girl at Rodean – has Alzheimer’s.
  • (6) "I'm not an educated person with any proper schooling," Fury said last year outside the Swiss-style chalet that had been his home in Essen for eight long weeks.
  • (7) He spent two months in a Swiss jail, followed by several months under house arrest at his chalet in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad, before authorities said they would not be extraditing him.
  • (8) Brigitte's in summer, and the mazot's interior The one I stayed in last March, Brigitte's Mazot, is very cute and just for two; it's down an icy path through the garden behind the main Chalet Les Mazots, not a mazot itself, but a gorgeous 1930s chalet with eight bedrooms (sleeping 14), individually rented by other guests.
  • (9) Here are some examples: in Chamonix , Chamois Blanc 7 is a cute little apartment, with modern decor and lots of pine panelling, sleeping four from €600 in February and March, or €500 in April; while in the Tarentaise, 20 minutes from lovely Sainte-Foy , which has nice runs, great hiking into the backcountry and is within a short drive of La Rosière and Les Arcs, La Tillette is a super-stylish modern chalet sleeping eight, with massive windows and white interiors, L'Occitane toiletries and off-piste skiing to the door.
  • (10) The chalet is just off the main street and has a sauna.
  • (11) Accommodation ranges from tents in a covered long house, small bamboo huts, a raised platform named “the honeymoon suite” and the relative luxury of riverside chalets.
  • (12) • £2,499pp (£625pp) for a family of four (two adults, two children aged two to 10), staying at Chalet Verwall on 23 December.
  • (13) He was said to have used his time under Swiss house arrest at his luxurious Gstaad mountain chalet to work intensely on the film.
  • (14) The hall where it was held is only a stone’s throw from Jaywick , the jumble of former holiday chalets and potholed streets that is reckoned to be the poorest council ward in England: on the face of it, a symbol of the kind of deep social problems that tend to be synonymous with political apathy.
  • (15) We spent several nights at a friendly little chalet-style hotel called Rilindja, hiking around the local villages and eating fresh river trout.
  • (16) Hoenle's cabin, Twentysix , is set in a small crescent of huts designed by one Vic Hallam, who launched the buildings as Anderby Chalets in 1959.
  • (17) For something more affordable, a double chalet at Mango Drift costs from £20 (+265 999 746122, mangodrift.com ) 13 Traverse the 'island in the sky': Mount Mulanje, Malawi Mount Mulanje, Malawi.
  • (18) Low Cost Holidays has seven nights for £485pp self-catering, including flights with easyJet, at the Yagoda & Malina Chalets , among pine trees.
  • (19) The simple chalet where I am staying the night was home at various times to house guests including Elizabeth David and the writer Sybille Bedford, and to James Baldwin (Richard's "petit-ami"), his soulmate and sometime romance; a perfect little trio of portraits of the author of The Fire Next Time , asleep and contemplating the world over coffee, are grouped on one wall.
  • (20) Chalet La Falaise in Les Carroz , which has 144 pistes in Le Grand Massif , sleeps 10 in four bedrooms, and costs £1,600 for the whole self-catering property for the weeks starting 2 and 9 March.

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.