dormitory room
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2.2
- noun
- /ˈdɔrmɪˌtɔri rum/
:
dormitorio
- After a long day of classes, I returned to my dormitory room to relax and study.
Examples
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Michael was sitting in his dormitory room making the final summary sheet for 7 weeks of classroom notes.
Fiction book (1997) -
Cyclists will check into their dormitory rooms at Fort Lewis College as early as Tuesday or Wednesday.
Blog text (20) -
In her first year at law school, her dormitory room was clean enough; it even had a window overlooking Washington Square Park.
Fiction book (1996) -
We were both sitting on the edge of the lumpy bed of her dormitory room on the third floor.
Fiction book (1993) -
Within three days of the publication of that article, there were three enormous sacks of mail in front of my dormitory room.
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Zuckerberg, 28, started Facebook with fellow Harvard students in 2004 in their college dormitory room.
Blog text (9) -
For student housing at the Maria Mitchell Observatory, we had available only one dormitory room, so we could not very well be co-educational.
Academic text (1993) -
The cold Minnesota night outside the window snaps a sting into the air and stretches across the dormitory room.
Fiction book (1996) -
Late on a Friday evening at the University of Pennsylvania two winters ago, freshman Eden Jacobowitz was studying in his dormitory room.
Academic text (1995) -
Ten minutes later, he sat on the floor of his Indiana University dormitory room, staring at a single entry in the Bloomington white pages as his fingers began punching the numbers.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
A room in a house where people sleep
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1.6
A bedroom in a building where students live, often shared with others
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3.0
A large room with many beds where people sleep, for example at a camp
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7.2
A bedroom in a large or old house
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1.0
A room for sleeping
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3.4
A place for sleeping, often in a hotel or train
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a large sleeping room' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dormitory' (shared sleeping accommodation) with 'room' (an indoor space); a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer that this refers to a sleeping room in a dormitory. Although slightly tautological because 'dormitory' already implies a sleeping room, the noun-noun composition is straightforward and follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so the phrase is immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
The noun dormitory room comes from the word dormitory, an old word for a 'sleeping place', combined with room. The image is a big room with many beds, so it now means 'a large shared sleeping room' in schools or camps.