Dormitory

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  • noun. A building for housing a number of persons, as at a school or resort.
  • noun. A room providing sleeping quarters for a number of persons.
  • noun. A community whose inhabitants commute to a nearby city for employment and recreation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A place, building, or room to sleep in.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A burial-place; a cemetery. See cemetery, which has the same etymological meaning.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A burial place.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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
  • noun. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
  • noun. Short for dormitory town, a suburban or rural settlement housing city workers
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a large sleeping room containing several beds
  • noun. a college or university building containing living quarters for students
  • Word Usage
    "The rooms are light and airy, although the dormitory is rather filled up with beds."
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