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 →

2) (US) A building at a college where students live. tree →

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 →
• The boys had a midnight feast in the dorm. tree →
• My cousin lives in a college dorm in Boston. tree →
• Lights out in the dorm was at nine o'clock. tree →
• The camp had four dorms and a big dining hall. tree →
• We decorated our dorm with posters. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.