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Dormer
Definitions
- 1 A surname from Irish.
- 1 A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof.
"Then we came to a high white wall that surrounded a large garden, and within it was a long, massive building of some beauty and pretension, with a high, latticed belfry and heavy walls and with arched dormers in the sloping roof."
- 2 A resident of a dormitory. Philippines
"My dorm mates and I had a little get-together in our room on the second floor. We were just talking and weren't making much noise when we heard a knock on our door. It was a dormer from the room directly below us. She asked if we were cleaning and we told her that we weren't. She left but came back a little while later and asked the same question again. We asked her if our matron wants us to clean up. The dormer said no and left. But after a few minutes, she came up again and again asked if we were cleaning our room because she could hear the noise down in her room."
- 3 a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window wordnet
- 4 Ellipsis of dormer-window. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Etymology
From Middle French dormoir (“sleeping room”), from dormir (“to sleep”).
From dorm + -er.
Most probably an English habitational surname, but if so the place of origin has not been identified. It could also be a reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Díorma.
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