dormitory
noun
dor·mi·to·ry
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plural dormitories
Definition of dormitory
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
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 on the Web
The campus had been a German barracks during the war, her dormitory was near the ruins of the Jewish ghetto, and there were still gaps along the streets from the Nazis’ systematic destruction of the city, in 1944. — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, "Olga Tokarczuk’s Novels Against Nationalism," 29 July 2019 Hanamaki Higashi’s baseball players are required to live in an on-campus dormitory. — Dylan Hernandez, latimes.com, "Shohei Ohtani and Yusei Kikuchi go from scrubbing toilets to living major league dream," 8 June 2019 Three judges declared James Blackmon, 66, innocent in the death of Helena Payton, who was stabbed in the neck in a dormitory bathroom of what is now St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh in September 1979. — USA TODAY, "Rocket’s last blast, Alaska drought, million-dollar ham: News from around our 50 states," 23 Aug. 2019 With the new dormitory now completed, the public charter school aims to provide a stable environment for the students, many of whom would be homeless or living in unsafe conditions otherwise. — Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, "Bay Area school first in California to offer free housing students," 8 Aug. 2019 Across the harbor in Kowloon and the rural suburbs called the New Territories, protesters surrounded police stations, scrawling insults on the outer walls and flashing lasers at dormitory windows. — Los Angeles Times, "Citywide strike erupts into night of chaos in Hong Kong," 5 Aug. 2019 Because mold occurs in nature as well as inside buildings, Treviño said the idea behind the dormitory improvements is to improve the temperature and humidity levels in all the rooms. — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, "San Antonio dorm project part of Air Force’s war on mold," 1 Aug. 2019 The dormitory building isn’t the only project that has been delayed at Laurel. — Doug Donovan, baltimoresun.com, "In 2016 Maryland racing regulators gave Stronach $1.7 million for new dorms for track workers. What happened?," 3 July 2019 Floro was in the segregation unit for less than two weeks and then placed in dormitory-type housing in a different part of Eastern Oregon’s general population. — oregonlive.com, "Federal jury finds Oregon corrections officer put inmate in harm’s way, awards $350,000 in damages," 2 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dormitory.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for dormitory
dormitory
noun
English Language Learners Definition of dormitory
US
: a building on a school campus that has rooms where students can live
: a large room with many beds where people can sleep
See the full definition for dormitory in the English Language Learners Dictionary
dormitory
noun
dor·mi·to·ry
| \ ˈdȯr-mə-ˌtȯr-ē
\
\
plural dormitories
Kids Definition of dormitory
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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