dorm room
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1.6
- noun
- /dɔrm ruːm/
- Informal
:
habitación de la residencia
- My roommate and I decorated our dorm room with posters and fairy lights.
But always remember, only black light can make your dorm room look cool.
- But always remember, only black light can make your dorm room look cool.
- It smells like a college dorm room, and I'm here for it.
- I run into this dorm room and I hear the following thing.
- My God, one night me and Kim were in our dorm room late at night.
- I said, it's not like I'm in my dorm room.
- We leave left our door open to our dorm room, which I do recommend, Right.
- She's like, what did you have in your dorm room to cook with?
Examples
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You want to share what you know, but only in the safety of your own dorm room?
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Not bad for a freshman dorm room, huh?
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So you can be alone in your dorm room and you can join a pool.
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Do not sit in your dorm room on your cell phone.
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Could you meet me at my dorm room later?
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So I locked myself in my dorm room for two years.
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Smells like a college dorm room, right?
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A week later, there were two suits waiting in my dorm room.
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A year after starting a dot-com business out of his dorm room, he landed in bankruptcy court.
Academic text (2001) -
Why does a guy like Mark Zuckerberg go from college dorm room to one of the richest people on the planet?
Synonyms
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1.0
A room in a house where people sleep
10
3.0
A large room with many beds where people sleep, for example at a camp
9
7.2
A bedroom in a large or old house
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2.2
A large sleeping room in a school or other place shared by several people
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1.0
A room for sleeping
1
3.4
A place for sleeping, often in a hotel or train
How Private
136
3.2
- Informal
47
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a bedroom in a dormitory' is directly and compositionally derived from 'dorm' (student residence) + 'room' (an indoor space), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the phrase. This noun+noun compounding is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern and therefore immediately comprehensible to B1 learners who know the words.
Etymology
Dorm room comes from dorm, short for 'dormitory' which originally meant 'a sleeping place', and room, so it creates the image of a small room in a building where students sleep and live together. That's why today dorm room means 'a bedroom in a dormitory, usually shared by students'.