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# dormitory

«dormitory» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large bedroom with many beds, such as in a boarding…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dormitory, dormitories)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A large bedroom with many beds, such as in a boarding school, camp or hostel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormitory/#m1)

2) (US) A college or university building where students live; often shortened to «dorm». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormitory/#m2)

3) (UK, also «dormitory town») A town where people live but travel elsewhere to work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormitory/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school stories, especially boarding-school ones, the dormitory is where children sleep and have midnight feasts. On school trips and camps, pupils share dormitories. In geography, a dormitory town or suburb shows commuting patterns. Phrases: «in the dormitory», «dormitory town», «lights out».

### examples

- We slept in a dormitory with twelve bunk beds on camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormitory/#x1)
- The girls had a midnight feast in the dormitory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormitory/#x2)
- My cousin lives in a university dormitory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormitory/#x3)
- Lights out in the dormitory is at nine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormitory/#x4)
- The boarding school has a dormitory for each year group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormitory/#x5)
- Many commuters live in the dormitory town and work in the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dormitory/#x6)

### note

Plural: dormitories (change «y» to «ies»). Informal short form: dorm. From Latin «dormire», to sleep (as in dormant).

### In the corpora

- [An anagram uses exactly the same letters in a new order: LISTEN becomes SILENT, and DORMITORY becomes DIRTY ROOM.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/1/)
- [DORMITORY is an anagram of DIRTY ROOM.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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