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# dorm

«dorm» in Mova's school dictionary: **Short for dormitory: a big bedroom with many beds, for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a dorm, dorms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) Short for dormitory: a big bedroom with many beds, for example at a boarding school, camp or hostel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dorm/#m1)

2) (US) A building at a college where students live. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dorm/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In boarding school stories (like many British school books) children share a dorm; in school trips and camps pupils sleep in dorms; in US college life students live in dorms; phrases: «the girls' dorm», «dorm room», «lights out in the dorm».

### examples

- On the school trip, eight of us shared a dorm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dorm/#x1)
- The boys had a midnight feast in the dorm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dorm/#x2)
- My cousin lives in a college dorm in Boston. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dorm/#x3)
- Lights out in the dorm was at nine o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dorm/#x4)
- The camp had four dorms and a big dining hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dorm/#x5)
- We decorated our dorm with posters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dorm/#x6)

### note

Short (clipped) form of dormitory. Countable: dorms. In US English «dorm» often means a whole building; in UK English it is usually one big room.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dorm» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dorm/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.