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Dormitory

//ˈdɔː.mɪ.tɹi// noun

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Noun

1
A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
"She will be much more likely to meet his wishes after a residence at the castle, than an imprisonment on short commons in her dormitory in Welbeck Street; for in one case she only learnt how much she could endure, in the other she will find how much she can enjoy."
2
a college or university building containing living quarters for students wordnet
3
A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
4
a large sleeping room containing several beds wordnet
5
A dormitory town.

Etymology

From Middle English dormitory, dormytory, dormytorye, borrowed from Latin dormītōrium (“a sleeping-room”), from dormiō (“to sleep”). Doublet of dormitorium and dorter.

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