Crossword clues for dormitory
dormitory
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dormitory \Dor"mi*to*ry\, n.; pl. Dormitories. [L. dormitorium, fr. dormitorius of or for sleeping, fr. dormire to sleep. See Dormant.]
A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
--Thackeray.-
A burial place. [Obs.]
--Ayliffe.My sister was interred in a very honorable manner in our dormitory, joining to the parish church.
--Evelyn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 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. Common abbreviation: dorm 2 A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. 3 Short for dormitory town, a suburban or rural settlement housing city workers
WordNet
n. a college or university building containing living quarters for students [syn: dorm, residence hall, hall, student residence]
a large sleeping room containing several beds [syn: dormitory room, dorm room]
Wikipedia
A dormitory (dorm) or hall of residence or hostel, is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students. In the United States dorm is the most common term, which comes originally from the Latin word dormitorium. On the other hand, in the United Kingdom the term hall is more usual, especially in a university context. A dormitory can also be a single room containing several beds – see Sleeping dormitories.
Usage examples of "dormitory".
Singular, communed the guest with himself, the wonderfully unequal faculty of metempsychosis possessed by them, that the puerperal dormitory and the dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such frivolity, that the mere acquisition of academic titles should suffice to transform in a pinch of time these votaries of levity into exemplary practitioners of an art which most men anywise eminent have esteemed the noblest.
Ingles at once appropriated William Bates for a walk through the framework of the unfinished dormitories.
FGHJs and riot speaking at all, Cha Thrat was able search the dormitory much more quickly, but with the same negative result.
We were then shewn three halls, in which we found at least one hundred and fifty seminarists, ten or twelve schoolrooms, the refectory, the dormitory, the gardens for play hours, and every pain was taken to make me imagine life in such a place the happiest that could fall to the lot of a young man, and to make me suppose that I would even regret the arrival of the bishop.
The dormitories had been forsaken, and men and women were beginning to establish their own homes, their children attending the city schools conducted by educationalists from America.
Many students were living in corrugated-metal favelas, and others had to endure the mass living in the crumbling dormitories on the other side of the campus.
That night was the last that Myles and Gascoyne spent lodging in the dormitory in their squirehood service.
As soon as it was time to retire that night Mont slipped upstairs and into the dormitory occupied by Hoke Ummer, Goul, and their chums.
After supper, accompanied by this lay friar, who had the title of prefect, we all proceeded to the dormitory.
A large lantern lighted up the dormitory, which had the shape of a parallelogram eighty yards by ten.
God-in-man and nurturing the indwelling Christ in people through Jesuitical pursuits underwent an understandable nosedive, and he began to do nothing but sit in his dormitory room at St.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione had crept out of their dormitories very early and hurried up to the Owlery together to send a note to Sirius.
I reached the female floor of the rekin and passed through the smaller rooms set aside for married women until I reached the broad dormitory for girls and guests.
PLOWED their way through the stodge that served as food in the Wizard Island Complex for Scientific Advancement, Ryan and Krysty retired to their section of the dormitory.
While one of the Syck brothers who had been a bedwetter back in the dormitory is able to report a dry bed in the Saskoschin country annex, his brother, hitherto dry, begins to wet his country annex bed regularly and his cot on the porch as well.