dormitory

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A building at a college or university where students live.

   She moved into the dormitory a week before classes began.

2. 2
   noun

   A large room with many beds, for example in a hostel or school.

   The youth hostel had a shared dormitory with twelve beds.

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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