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Condominium vs Residence - What's the difference?

condominium | residence |

As nouns the difference between condominium and residence

is that condominium is joint sovereignty over a territory while residence is residence (place where one resides).

condominium

Noun

(en noun)
  • Joint sovereignty over a territory.
  • A region or territory under such rule.
  • *2013 , Clive H Church & Randolph C Head, A Concise History of Switzerland , Cambridge 2013, p. 76:
  • *:The strategic location of the condominiums […]made them important for the Confederacy's territorial integrity even if they produced little revenue.
  • (US, Canada) A building in which each unit is owned by an individual but the grounds, structure etc is owned jointly.
  • (US, Canada) the system of ownership by which such condominiums operate
  • (US, Canada) A unit or apartment in such a complex.
  • The legal tenure involved.
  • Synonyms

    * condo building

    Derived terms

    * condo (abbreviation)

    residence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The place where one lives.
  • * Macaulay
  • Johnson took up his residence in London.
  • A building used as a home.
  • The place where a corporation is established.
  • The state of living in a particular place or environment.
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
  • The place where anything rests permanently.
  • * Milton
  • But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
  • subsidence, as of a sediment
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
  • (Jeremy Taylor)