DORMITORIES

Definition: DORMITORIES

DORMITORIES

Plural

1. Of Dormitory

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DORMITORIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Synonyms: DORMITORIES

Crosswords: DORMITORIES

Hamilton Walk and dormitories, University of Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dormitories, U. of Pa., Philadelphia, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vallejo, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing project. Dormitories. Credit: Library of Congress.

Room in FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories occupied by women who work at the Navy shipyards. Bremerton, Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

Women who work at the Navy shipyards in the community room for women at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) duration dormitories. Bremerton, Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

Men who work at the Navy shipyards in the community room at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories. Bremerton, Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

Workmen at the Navy shipyards in the community room at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) duration dormitories. Bremerton, Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

Workers from electric boat company plant in washroom of new dormitories for defense workers. Groton, Connecticut. Constructed and managed by FSA (Farm Security Administration). Credit: Library of Congress.

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Farm labor trainees live in dormitories at Rio Grande College. Credit: Library of Congress.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Old dormitories at University of Virginia I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

They dwelt not in dormitories warmed only in the bitterest frost of winter, but in cells where fire was never kindled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Risk groups include general population (for epidemics), infants and young children (for endemic disease), refugees, household contacts of case patients, military personnel, college freshmen (who live in dormitories), and people exposed to active and passive tobacco smoke. (references)

Children

Mozambique

In a case that gained national attention in 1998, residents of Morrumbene district in Inhambane province demanded the exclusion of girls from the dormitories at the Cambine secondary school. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burma

Campuses have been moved to relatively remote areas, teachers and students have been warned that disturbances would be dealt with severely, and on-campus dormitories have been closed. (references)

Bangladesh

Campus violence has little to do with ideological differences, and more to do with extortion rackets run by nonstudent party activists, including those based on physical control of dormitories. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

When the authorities arrived at the dormitories for the sweep, the student activists had left. (references)

Bangladesh

Authorities shut down Chittagong University after a gun battle between activists of BCL and the Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami (a member of the four-party alliance), left 20 persons injured on August 13. On August 11, the ICS began enforcing an indefinite strike on campus to pressure university authorities to return dormitories to students ousted by BCL activists during Awami League rule and to sweep the campus for illegal weapons. (references)

Worker Rights

Macau

These workers often work for less than half of the wages paid to a local resident performing the same job, live in controlled dormitories, work 10 to 12 hours per day, and owe large sums of money to the labor-importing company for the purchase of their jobs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

宿舍 (Dormitory). (various references)

German

Schlafsäle (dorms). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

全寮制 (system where all students live in dormitories). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜ�"りょうせい (system where all students live in dormitories). (various references)

Korean 

기숙사 (Dormitory). (various references)

Pig Latin

ormitoriesday

Spanish

dormitorios. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: motorised.

-3 letters: diorites, doomster, misorder, moidores, moodiest, mooriest, mortised, mortiser, motorise, redroots, restroom, roomiest, sodomite, stormier.

-4 letters: diorite, dirtier, dirties, disroot, distome, ditsier, dormers, editors, erotism, miriest, misdoer, misedit, mistier, modiste, moidore, moister, moodier, moorier, mooters, mortise, motored, oroides, osteoid, redroot, remorid, retrims, rimiest, rioters, roister, roomers, roomier, roomies, roosted, rooster, rooters, rootier.

+4 letters: diastereoisomer, micrometeoroids, thermoperiodism.

+5 letters: diastereoisomers, thermoperiodisms.

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