Definition of dormitory
dormitories
1 : a room for sleeping; especially : a large room containing numerous beds
2 : a residence hall providing rooms for individuals or for groups usually without private baths
3 chiefly British : a residential community inhabited chiefly by commuters
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Examples of dormitory in a Sentence
Guests at the camp can stay in private cabins or for a smaller fee in the dormitories.
Recent Examples of dormitory from the Web
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So if warm, sandy beaches outside the dormitories are a selling point, University of West Florida is a serviceable university to attend.
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At dusk each evening, Carlos stood outside the men’s dormitory washing one of his only two shirts with one hand.
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Needless to say, my brown-skinned color bra didn’t really come out that great, and I was left with a mess in the dormitory bathroom.
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The world’s attention, however, has been focused on just 276 of those victims: the young women whose fate became a global concern after they were kidnapped from their boarding-school dormitory in Chibok on the night of April 14, 2014.
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Writer/composer Jacob Surovsky, 19, has created a fun, if uneven, score for this wacky hourlong story of four friends fighting off a monster that haunts the halls of their college dormitory.
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They were all questioned by me, and not one had any suspicion of any inappropriate activities going on in that dormitory.
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Powell alleged that McGee paid her $10,000 for 22 shows at the Cardinals' dormitory from 2010-14, a period that includes their NCAA title run.
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Still missing are a dormitory, offices and a cafeteria.
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Origin and Etymology of dormitory
Middle English, from Latin dormitorium, from dormire
DORMITORY Defined for English Language Learners
dormitory
playDefinition of dormitory for English Language Learners
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: a building on a school campus that has rooms where students can live
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: a large room with many beds where people can sleep
DORMITORY Defined for Kids
dormitory
playDefinition of dormitory for Students
dormitories
1 : a building at a school with rooms where students live a college dormitory
2 : a large room for several people to sleep
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