dorm
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1.8
- noun
- /dɔrm/
- Informal
:
residencia universitaria
- Some days I'll stay in my dorm, some days I'll stay at home.
- a dorm room
- live in a dorm
- dorm life
I was asked to knock on dorms, you know, pass out Flyers.
- I was asked to knock on dorms, you know, pass out Flyers.
- I've been kicked out of the dorms for doing stupid stuff.
- Let's go to Rosler, which is a dorm down the street, OK.
- So I locked myself in my dorm for the next two years.
- And we, the tour walked right in front of my freshman dorm window.
- People began getting expelled in my dorm for the riot.
- So get off this phone and get your butt out of that dorm and go make some friends.
- I think in like August, just whenever school starts and the dorms are like open I guess.
- She'll stay in her dorm, get to know her roommates, plural.
- Yeah, bro, I get it in the dorm for the culture.
Examples
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When students are not in classes or in the dorms, they are most likely engaged in the co-curricular program.
Academic text (2005) -
I wish I were back at school in the dorm, in my own room.
Fiction book (1992) -
So I locked myself in my dorm for the next two years.
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And you guys actually lived in the same dorm at Harvard University?
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In every Harvard dorm there is a little piece of history.
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Why don't you go back to the dorm and get some sleep?
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Many students living on campus occupy dorms, and dorm life can be particularly challenging.
Academic text (2013) -
After a long day of classes, I like to relax in my dorm with friends.
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Many students living in a dorm enjoy the social aspects of campus life.
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During my first year, I shared a dorm room with a student from another country.
Synonyms
156
1.0
A university building where students live
47
1.6
A bedroom in a building where students live, often shared with others
38
2.4
A building where college or university students live while they study
7
2.8
A building on a college campus where students live
1
2.2
A large sleeping room in a school or other place shared by several people
A building on a college or university campus where students live
A building where university students live during term time
A building where students live and study together, often with a shared dining hall
Compounds
How Communal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dorm is short for dormitory, which comes from the Latin root dormire meaning 'to sleep'. So a dorm is simply a place where students sleep and live while they are at college.