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 →

2) (US) A college or university building where students live; often shortened to «dorm». tree →

3) (UK, also «dormitory town») A town where people live but travel elsewhere to work. tree →

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 →
• The girls had a midnight feast in the dormitory. tree →
• My cousin lives in a university dormitory. tree →
• Lights out in the dormitory is at nine. tree →
• The boarding school has a dormitory for each year group. tree →
• Many commuters live in the dormitory town and work in the city. tree →

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.
• DORMITORY is an anagram of DIRTY ROOM.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dormitory» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.