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dormitory

[ dawr-mi-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

noun

plural dormitories.
  1. a building, as at a college, containing a number of private or semiprivate rooms for residents, usually along with common bathroom facilities and recreation areas.
  2. a room containing a number of beds and serving as communal sleeping quarters, as in an institution, fraternity house, or passenger ship.


dormitory

/ -tr瑟; 藞d蓴藧m瑟t蓹r瑟 /

noun

  1. a large room, esp at a school or institution, containing several beds
  2. a building, esp at a college or camp, providing living and sleeping accommodation
  3. modifier denoting or relating to an area from which most of the residents commute to work (esp in the phrase dormitory suburb )
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of dormitory1

1475鈥85; < Latin 诲辞谤尘墨迟艒谤颈耻尘 bedroom, equivalent to 诲辞谤尘墨 ( re ) to sleep + -迟艒谤颈耻尘 -tory 2
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of dormitory1

C15: from Latin 诲辞谤尘墨迟艒谤颈耻尘, from 诲辞谤尘墨re to sleep
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Children as young as 4 slept in crowded dormitories.

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Ms Burke said she was being held in a dormitory of 110 people in the "maxed out" immigration centre in Tacoma.

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Prior to his death, Dang had been woken up in the night by other students chatting in his dormitory, their statement said.

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The dormitory at Casa Santa Marta, where the cardinals are sequestered, is purposefully more modern than the Sistine Chapel and the other Vatican rooms.

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In a last-ditch effort, Hyun-ju sprints back to the dormitories to check on Dae-ho and retrieve the ammunition, just as another team of masked guards enters and opens fire.

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