Mansion vs Condominium - What's the difference?
mansion | condominium |
(senseid) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
(UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
(obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
(obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
(historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
* Late 14th century: Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
(Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:
* Denham
* 2003 , The Economist , (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:
Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
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 mansion and condominium
is that mansion is (large house or building) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy while condominium is joint sovereignty over a territory.mansion
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Alternative forms
* mansioun (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were not so, I would have told you.
- These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansions keep.
- The many mansions in one east London house of God.
