Dormitory

Definition: Dormitory

Dormitory

Noun

1. Living quarters at a college or university where students live.

2. A large sleeping room containing several beds.

Date "dormitory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Dormitory \Dor"mi*to*ry\, noun; plural Dormitories. [Latin expression dormitorium, from dormitorius of or for sleeping, from dormire to sleep. See Dormant.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Dormitory

Synonyms: dorm (n), dorm room (n), dormitory room (n), hall (n), residence hall (n), student residence (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: dormitories (personal care & hotels, transportation).

A dormitory is a place to sleep. In some hostels, dormitories can have a number of beds with little or no privacy for the residents. Halls of Residence at boarding schools, colleges and universities used to house students in dormtories. Nowadays, colleges and universities provide single or double rooms for their students, though such buildings and rooms are nonetheless often referred to as dormitories.

The term dormitory is often applied to suburbs or towns adjacent to large cities. For instance, Porirua is a dormitory city for Wellington, New Zealand. (In the United States, these would be called bedroom communities.)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Receptacle	Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dormitory

English words defined with "dormitory": Dormitories, Dorture ♦ gate. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dormitory": correction officer, counselor, dormitory ♦ dormitory supervisor ♦ Embedded housing unit ♦ head resident, dormitor ♦ Oblivion ♦ POLICE OFFICER II ♦ RESIDENCE COUNSELOR ♦ Saxon Relics, supervisor, education and custody. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A history of Hale, Cheshire: from Domesday to dormitory (reference) Dormitory dollars : how to invest in the highly profitable studen rental property market (reference) Dormitory Drug Dens and the Due Process: The Law of Search in the Federal System (reference) Englandes earliest printers : [catalogue of] an exhibition held in the monks dormitory, Durham Cathedral, to commemorate five hundred years of printing in England 1976 (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Blood Creature/Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (reference) Bad Girls Dormitory (reference) Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Letters From A Dormitory Misfit (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Westbrook Sanatorium, Richmond, VA. : Nurses' Dormitory. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		U.S. Army. Sternberg General Hospital, Camp Thomas, Chichamauga, Ga. : Dormitory C. Furnished by Red Cross. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Beds in Marcia Van Ness dormitory, Hillcrest Children's Center, 4123 Nebraska Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.		Student reading in dormitory, Washington, D.C.] / Scurlock, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.
	New dormitory, the Western College, Oxford, O[hio]. Credit: Library of Congress.		South dormitory, Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Corner of dormitory, homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.		Men reading in dormitory, homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Holy Child School, Suffern, New York. Dormitory. Credit: Library of Congress.		Kent School, Kent, Connecticut. North dormitory, west facade. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	On the morning of the great day, it was not uncommon to hear the question in the dormitory.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	A voice bade the boys in the dormitory goodnight.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Iran	Police forces reportedly looked on and allowed repeated attacks against the students and their dormitory. (references)
	Iran	HRW reported that, according to witnesses, at least 4 students were killed in the assault on the dormitory, 300 were injured, and 400 were detained. (references)
	Iran	In August 1999, the commander of the security forces, General Hedayat Lotfian, was summoned before the Parliament to explain the role of his officers in the dormitory raid. (references)
Economic History	Taiwan	Fringe benefits often include meals, transportation and dormitory housing. (references)
	China	However, enterprises that merge with existing SOE's may still be required to provide workers dormitory housing. (references)
Human Rights	Indonesia	KOMNAS-HAM also conducted an investigation into police use of excessive force on December 7, 2000 in Abepura, West Papua, when police pulled 23 students from their dormitory rooms and beat them. (references)
Political Economy	Iran	A group of 20 police officials was brought to trial in March 2000 for their actions in an attack on a Tehran University student dormitory in July 1999. However, according to the U. N. Special Representative for Iran of the Commission on Human Rights (UNSR), all but one were cleared of charges and released; the court sentenced one individual to 6 months in prison. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Dormitory" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dormitory" is used about 161 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	161	24,661

Expressions using "dormitory": dormitory room ♦ dormitory suburb. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "dormitory": dormitory-style.
	Ending with "dormitory": near-dormitory.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "dormitory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dhomë fjetjeje (bedchamber, dorm), konvikt (dorm, hostel), fjetore (dorm). (various references)

Arabic		‏مهجع لعدة إسرة, ‏المهجع, ‏المبنى المهجعي. (various references)

Bulgarian		обща спалня (dorm). (various references)

Chinese		宿舍 (living quarters). (various references)

Czech		ubytovna (hostel, lodging house), ubikace, studentská kolej (hall of residence, student hostel), spoleèná ložnice. (various references)

Danish		soverum (sleeping quarter). (various references)

Dutch		slaapruimte (sleeping quarter). (various references)

Farsi		مدرسه وغیره), خوابگاه (Bedroom, Chamber). (various references)

Finnish		makuusali, asuntola. (various references)

French		dortoir. (various references)

German		schlafsaal (dorm), schlafraum (bedder, dorm). (various references)

Greek		κοιτώνας. (various references)

Hebrew		פ� ימי�" (boarding school). (various references)

Hungarian		hálóterem (dorm), lakópavilon (dorm), kollégium (boarding school, boarding-school, college, course, dorm, house), egyetemi kollégium (fraternity house, sorority house, student residence, student's hostel), diákszálló (fraternity house, sorority house, student residence, student's hostel). (various references)

Indonesian		pendepokan (camp), asrama (barracks, hostel). (various references)

Italian		dormitorio (dorm, doss house, sleeping quarters). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ドーナツ現象 (Doberman, Dobermann Pinscher, dole queue, dome, domesday, doomsday, dope check, dope test, doping, Doria, dormer window, dormie, dormie hole, dormy, doughnut phenomenon, drug test), 寮舎 , 寮 (hostel), 学寮 (student hostel). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		がくりょう (student hostel), ドーミトリー , りょうしゃ (both persons, both things, pair, the two), りょう (amount, catch, charge, companion, completion, defy, eclipse, endure, excel, fee, finish, fishing, game, good, hostel, hunting, keep out, material, official, portion, pull through, quantity, rate, skill, slight, stave off, surpass, tide over, understanding, volume). (various references)

Korean		기숙사 (Dormitories). (various references)

Manx		boayl cadlee. (various references)

Pig Latin		ormitoryday

Portuguese		dormitório (bedroom, berth). (various references)

Romanian		dormitor comun, dormitor (bedroom, chamber). (various references)

Russian		студенческое общежитие, спальня (bedchamber, bedroom, dorm, roost), дортуар (dorm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		studentski dom (dorm), spavaonica (dorm), đački (pupil, pupilary). (various references)

Spanish		dormitorio (bedchamber, bedroom, dormer, sleeping quarters). (various references)

Swedish		sovsal. (various references)

Thai		หอพัก. (various references)

Turkish		yurt (dig, diggings, digs, dorm, hall, hall of residence, home, hostel, house, youth hostel), yatakhane (dorm), koğuş (dorm, ward). (various references)

Ukrainian		спочивальня, дортуар. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	koimeterion. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Dormitory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dormatory, dormintory, dormitary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dormitory" (pronounced dô"rmutô'rē)
8	-ô" r m u t ô' r ē	reformatory.
6	-m u t ô' r ē	confirmatory, defamatory, inflammatory.
5	-u t ô' r ē	accusatory, aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, auditory, celebratory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, declaratory, depilatory, depository, derogatory, dilatory, discriminatory, excretory, exculpatory, expiratory, explanatory, exploratory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inhibitory, interrogatory, investigatory, laboratory, laudatory, lavatory, mandatory, migratory, nondiscriminatory, obligatory, observatory, oratory, oscillatory, participatory, predatory, preparatory, prohibitory, purgatory, regulatory, repository, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, territory, transitory.
4	-t ô' r ē	desultory, multistory, repertory, understory.
3	-ô' r ē	allegory, category, outlawry, promissory.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-i-m-o-o-r-r-t-y"
	-3 letters: toroid, torrid.
	-4 letters: dirty, doomy, dormy, dorty, droit, moody, moory, morro, motor, myoid, ootid, roomy, rooty, rotor.
	-5 letters: dirt, doit, doom, door, dorm, dorr, dory, doty, miry, mity, modi, mood, moor, moot, mort, odor, omit, ordo, rimy, riot, rood, room, root, roti, roto, ryot, tidy, tiro, tody, toom, tori, toro, torr, tory, toyo.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-m-o-o-r-r-t-y"
	+3 letters: hydrotropism.
	+4 letters: hydrotropisms.
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