condominium
noun(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 公寓（套房私有，其他地方属业主共有）；公寓的套房；公寓的单元 We were staying in a condominium just off of the beach. 我们住在离海滩不远的公寓里。 a new condominium complex in Long Beach 长滩一栋新的综合公寓大楼 There are town house and condominium developments going up in town. 镇上正在兴建排房和公寓住宅区。
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.