: a residence hall providing rooms for individuals or for groups usually without private baths
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chiefly British: a residential community inhabited chiefly by commuters
Example Sentences
Guests at the camp can stay in private cabins or for a smaller fee in the dormitories.
Recent Examples on the WebWhile the design phase has yet to commence, Bravin said that ASD’s goal is to create a dormitory that follows a pod concept that will group students based on need or age. Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 4 Sep. 2022 Court records state that Vaifo’ou had been drinking alcohol at a party on April 17, 2021, and a friend gave him a ride back to a USU dormitory early the next morning. Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022 Oliverson suffered a fractured skull after falling from a bunk bed at the players' dormitory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, early Monday morning. Wayne Sterling, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022 One arrived at Bondarenko’s dormitory and demanded her release, saying the law protected a refugee’s freedom of movement.Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2022 Engineers and test drivers from across the country would house themselves in a dormitory that was part of the beautiful Tudor revival Lodge with an eight-bay garage and the famous 2½-mile oval test track. Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2022 At the end of the trip was the Stromynka, a vast, austere, and crowded dormitory — eight to 15 students to a room — that had been a military barracks in the time of Peter the Great. Marilyn Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022 Overnight dormitory stays from about $33 per person, per night for nonmembers. Kenneth R. Rosen, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022 An impoverished painter living in a public dormitory in a poor district to the north of Leopoldstadt was inspired to build a new ideology following Lueger’s blueprint. Jonathan Bate, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Latin dormitorium, from dormire