Dormitory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A room providing sleeping quarters for a number of persons.
  • n. A building for housing a number of persons, as at a school or resort.
  • n. A community whose inhabitants commute to a nearby city for employment and recreation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. Common abbreviation: dorm
  • n. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
  • n. Short for dormitory town, a suburban or rural settlement housing city workers
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
  • n. A burial place.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A place, building, or room to sleep in.
  • n. That part of a boarding-school or other institution where the inmates sleep, usually a large room, either open or divided by low partitions, or a series of rooms opening upon a common hall or corridor: in American colleges, sometimes an entire building divided into sleeping-rooms.
  • n. A burial-place; a cemetery. See cemetery, which has the same etymological meaning.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a large sleeping room containing several beds
  • n. a college or university building containing living quarters for students
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sleeping room    bedchamber    sleeping accommodation    bedroom    chamber   
    Cross Reference
    dorter    dortoir    dortour   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dorm   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    reformatory   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    infirmary    barrack    bedroom    dorm    diningroom   
     
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