dormitory

Definitions

1. A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
2. bedroom (a room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping)
3. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
4. A dormitory town.

Equivalents

Examples

“She will be much more likely to meet⟳ his wishes after a residence at the castle, than an imprisonment on short commons in her dormitory in Welbeck Street; for in one case she only learnt how much she could endure, in the other she will find⟳ how much she can enjoy⟳.”

“The foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova was responding to a report⟳ last⟳ week about an item in the 2024 US air force⟳ budget for building a dormitory at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk for personnel on a “potential surety mission” – military jargon for nuclear safety and security.”

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