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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DORMITORY, n. [L., to sleep.]
1. A place, building or room to sleep in.
2. A gallery in convents divided into several cells, where the religious sleep.
3. A burial place.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a college or university building containing living quarters for students [syn: dormitory, dorm, residence hall, hall, student residence]
2: a large sleeping room containing several beds [syn: dormitory, dormitory room, dorm room]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ries) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin dormitorium, from dormire Date: 15th century 1. a room for sleeping; especially a large room containing numerous beds 2. a residence hall providing rooms for individuals or for groups usually without private baths 3. chiefly British a residential community inhabited chiefly by commuters

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a sleeping-room with several beds, esp. in a school or institution. 2 (in full dormitory town etc.) a small town or suburb from which people travel to work in a city etc. 3 US a university or college hall of residence or hostel. Etymology: ME f. L dormitorium f. dormire dormit- sleep

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dormitory Dor"mi*to*ry, n.; pl. Dormitories. [L. dormitorium, fr. dormitorius of or for sleeping, fr. dormire to sleep. See Dormant.] 1. 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. 2. A burial place. [Obs.] --Ayliffe. My sister was interred in a very honorable manner in our dormitory, joining to the parish church. --Evelyn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dormitories) 1. A dormitory is a large bedroom where several people sleep, for example in a boarding school. ...the boys' dormitory... N-COUNT 2. A dormitory is a building in a college or university where students live. (AM; in BRIT, use hall of residence) She lived in a college dormitory. N-COUNT 3. If you refer to a place as a dormitory suburb or town, you mean that most of the people who live there travel to work in another, larger town a short distance away. (BRIT) ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Chamber, bedroom, sleeping room, place to sleep in. 2. Building containing sleeping apartments.

Moby Thesaurus

bedchamber, bedroom, boardinghouse, boudoir, chamber, cubicle, cubiculum, dorm, doss house, fleabag, flophouse, guest house, hospice, hostel, hostelry, hotel, inn, lodging house, nursery, ordinary, pension, posada, pub, public, public house, roadhouse, rooming house, sleeping room, tavern