dormitory
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- noun
- /ˈdɔrmɪˌtɔri/
:
residencia universitaria
- The university requires all freshmen to live in the dormitory during their first year.
- live in a dormitory
- dormitory room
- dormitory life
It's the people who work in our dining halls, those who work in our dormitories, our faculty and our staff more broadly.
- It's the people who work in our dining halls, those who work in our dormitories, our faculty and our staff more broadly.
- A newly arrived student is walking up Palm Drive from the train station, suitcase and hand to the men's dormitory, then in Encina Hall.
- And, and, you know, I had met the president once before because it was President Bush, because his son was in my dormitory.
- You you make you make very good friends, like being in that sort of environment and dormitory with, you know, it was all girls school.
Examples
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We were in college; our dormitory was five miles from the epicenter.
Fiction book (1990) -
The two friends were transferred from the police building to a dormitory in a vocational school.
Fiction book (2001) -
Yes, because in our school the girls dormitory and the boys dormitory are separate.
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University life for the students began as they registered and moved into the dormitory.
Academic text (2011) -
I'll take you straight to the dormitory.
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All students are to return to their house dormitories at once.
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Since her discharge from the hospital, Lian had been living in a dormitory for offworld students at the University.
Fiction book (2000) -
Eliot studies in a private parochial high school, where he stays in the dormitory all week.
Academic text (1995) -
Since World War II, Bramcote has become a dormitory suburb for Nottingham and other industrial districts.
Academic text (1990) -
A newly arrived student is walking up Palm Drive from the train station, suitcase and hand to the men's dormitory, then in Encina Hall.
Synonyms
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A building where college or university students live while they study
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A university building where students live
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A building on a college campus where students live
A building where university students live during term time
A building on a college or university campus where students live
A building where students live and study together, often with a shared dining hall
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Etymology
Dormitory comes from the Latin word dormire, meaning 'to sleep', and it once meant a sleeping place. So today a dormitory can mean a building where students live and sleep.