dorm
/dɔːm
/noun informal
A dormitory.Shaking his head, he made his way out of his room and into the living room of the dorm....
- Cohabitation in a rented apartment is becoming preferable to school dorms.
- I walked up the creaky stairs up to the hallway where the dorms were, letting my bags thump behind me.
Origin
Early 20th century: abbreviation.
Rhymes
- orthodoxical
- orthodoxically
- orthodoxism
- orthodoxist
- Orthodox Judaism
- orthodoxly
- orthodoxness
- orthodoxy
- orthodrome
- orthodromic
- orthoepic
- orthoepical
- orthoepist
- orthoepistic
- orthoepistical
- orthoepy
- orthoferrite
- orthoform
- orthogenesis
- orthogenesist
- orthogenetic
- orthogenetically
- orthogenetics
- orthogenic
- orthogeosyncline