Cottage vs Condominium - What's the difference?
cottage | condominium |
A small house; a cot; a hut.
A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
* , chapter=1
, title= (UK, slang, dated) A public toilet.
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
(intransitive, British, slang) Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
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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.
As nouns the difference between cottage and condominium
is that cottage is a small house; a cot; a hut while condominium is joint sovereignty over a territory.As a verb cottage
is to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.cottage
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage ’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
