condominium
noun /ˌkɒndəˈmɪniəm/
/ˌkɑːndəˈmɪniəm/
(also informal condo)
(especially North American English)- an apartment building or group of houses in which each apartment/house is owned by the person living in it but the shared areas are owned by everyone together; an apartment/a house in such a building or group of houses
- We were staying in a condominium just off of the beach.
- a new condominium complex in Long Beach
- There are town house and condominium developments going up in town.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- high-rise
- buy
- rent
- stay in
- …
- building
- complex
- unit
- …
Word Originearly 18th cent.: modern Latin, from con- ‘together with’ + dominium ‘right of ownership’, from dominus ‘lord, master’. The current sense dates from the 1960s.