Dormitory
['dɔːmɪt(ə)rɪ] or ['dɔrmətɔri]
Definition
(noun.) a college or university building containing living quarters for students.
(noun.) a large sleeping room containing several beds.
Checked by Karol--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A burial place.
Edited by Cheryl
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Chamber, bed-room, sleeping-room, place to sleep in.
Edited by Josie
Examples
- I still loathed my bed in the school dormitory more than words can express: I clung to whatever could distract thought. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I stole from the room, I procured the key of the great dormitory, which was kept locked by day. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- While pondering this problem, I sat in the dormitory window-seat. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Entering with bated breath, quietly making all fast, shoelessly mounting the staircase, I sought the dormitory, and reached my couch. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Within the dormitory they gathered round the night-lamp in consternation, praying loud. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The household came to bed, the night-light was lit, the dormitory hushed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Will the dormitory-planks sustain my tread untraitorous? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The oratory closed, the dormitory became the scene of ablutionsarrayings and bedizenings curiously elaborate. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Lights, moving in the dormitory, announced that prayers were over, and the pupils going to bed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Do you know that I actually found that she had not yet discovered your absence from the house: she thought you safe in the great dormitory. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- How soundly the dormitory slept! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Still half-dreaming, I tried hard to discover in what room they had put mewhether the great dormitory, or one of the little dormitories. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To my gasping senses she made the glimmering gloom, the narrow limitsthe oppressive heat of the dormitory, intolerable. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Throughout the dormitory, throughout the house, there reigned at this hour the stillness of death. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I watched you rise and leave the dormitory about eleven o'clock. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In the dormitories I observed loopholes at certain distances all along just under the ceiling, which I thought judiciously placed for change of air. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Still half-dreaming, I tried hard to discover in what room they had put mewhether the great dormitory, or one of the little dormitories. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I found they worked for a common stock, ate at common tables, and slept in common dormitories, great numbers together. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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