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dormitory

(dɔːʳmɪtri, US -tɔːri)
Word forms: plural dormitories
1. countable noun
A dormitory is a large bedroom where several people sleep, for example in a boarding school.
...the boys' dormitory.
The latest refugees were housed in makeshift dormitories.
2. countable noun
A dormitory is a building in a college or university where students live.
[US]
She lived in a college dormitory.
regional note: in BRIT, use hall of residence
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
If you refer to a place as a dormitory suburb or town, you mean that most of the people who live there travel to work in another, larger town a short distance away.
[British]
It had become almost a dormitory suburb of the city.

dormitory in British English

(ˈdɔːmɪtərɪ, -trɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -ries
1. 
a large room, esp at a school or institution, containing several beds
2.  US
a building, esp at a college or camp, providing living and sleeping accommodation
3. (modifier) British
denoting or relating to an area from which most of the residents commute to work (esp in the phrase dormitory suburb)
Often (for senses 1, 2) shortened to: dorm
Word origin
C15: from Latin dormītōrium, from dormīre to sleep

dormitory in American English

(ˈdɔrməˌtɔri)
nounWord forms: plural ˈdormiˌtories
1. 
a room, building, or part of a building with sleeping accommodations for a numberof people
2.  US
a building with many rooms that provide sleeping and living accommodations for anumber of people, as at college
adjective
3.  Chiefly British
designating a suburb or small town whose residents travel daily to their jobs in the city
Word origin
ME dormitorie < L dormitorium, place for sleeping < dormitorius, of or for sleeping < pp. of dormire: see dormant

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Examples of 'dormitory' in a sentence
dormitory

Although a dormitory storyteller at school, my grandfather veered away from fantasy as he grew up.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
It always happened in a room at our dormitory.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Without the castle it might be simply another commuter dormitory town.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Worker dormitory suburbs already resemble ghost towns.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They sleep on mattresses in a makeshift dormitory with hundreds of others and take their meals from a soup kitchen.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
His prison is in a dingy room, while the other youngsters share a dormitory.
The Sun (2006)
They used a disused Victorian hotel for dormitories and practice rooms.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It includes my office, my rooms and a dormitory for the students who work with me.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
And so Danlo returned to his dormitory room.
Zindell, David The Broken God (1993)
Many were housed overnight in makeshift dormitories in Malibu.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The dormitory accommodation is spartan.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He relies on a wheeled walking frame to get around, although his days are spent mostly on lockdown in a shared dormitory.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Or do you feel you have settled for a dependable, dull existence in one of the lesser dormitory towns that serve our cities?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The ideal nursery for a great American career these days seems to be the Harvard dormitory room.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The cost of 799 includes dormitory style rooms, most meals and orientation.
The Sun (2010)
Could not the same be done in any dormitory town in the crowded South East?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Meanwhile, team doctors will be banned from treating athletes in locker rooms and dormitories at the Olympics.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It is very much a dormitory town for Bristol, and at the moment prices are more affordable in places closer in.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
After years of inaction, squads of police and soldiers began sweeping the dense jungles last week and found four camps holding 50 makeshift dormitory huts.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It has meant a quarter of the dormitory accommodation is yet to be completed, with the Army bringing in rows of large tents to house troops.
The Sun (2012)

In other languages
dormitory

British English: dormitory /ˈdɔːmɪtərɪ; -trɪ/ NOUN
A dormitory is a large bedroom where several people sleep.
...the boys' dormitory.
  • American English: dormitory large bedroom
  • Arabic: قَاعَةُ النَوْم
  • Brazilian Portuguese: dormitório
  • Chinese: 宿舍
  • Croatian: spavaonica
  • Czech: ubytovna
  • Danish: sovesal
  • Dutch: slaapzaal
  • European Spanish: dormitorio colegio
  • Finnish: makuusali
  • French: dortoir
  • German: Schlafsaal
  • Greek: κοιτώνας
  • Italian: camerata
  • Japanese: 共同寝室
  • Korean: 기숙사
  • Norwegian: sovesal
  • Polish: sala sypialna
  • European Portuguese: dormitório
  • Romanian: dormitor comun
  • Russian: общая спальня
  • Latin American Spanish: dormitorio
  • Swedish: sovsal
  • Thai: หอพัก
  • Turkish: yatakhane
  • Ukrainian: спальня
  • Vietnamese: ký túc xá

Chinese translation of 'dormitory'

dormitory

(ˈdɔːmɪtrɪ)

n (c)

  1. (= room) 宿舍 (sùshè) (间(間), jiān)
  2. (US, = building) 宿舍楼(樓) (sùshèlóu) (座, zuò)
    英 = hall of residence
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