Read full poem →instead of doors ; and in this way made as good alcoves
for a boys' dormitory as if at first planned for them.
Larger rooms were kept here and there for tutors, and
Dictionary Entry
A building on a college or university campus where students live and sleep.
In a Sentence
“The freshman moved into the dormitory on campus before classes started.”
Origin
Late 16th century from Latin dormitorium ‘sleeping place’, from dormire ‘to sleep’.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “dormitory”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →same floor in single rooms, one after the other, and it reminded me
of my dormitory at college. It wasn’t a proper hotel—I mean a hotel
where there are both men and women mixed about here and there
Read full poem →But for all this the boys spoke to me gently, gave me the privileges
of the table, the bath-room, the dormitory. The president of the Y. M.
C. A. lent me a clean suit of pajamas. He and two other young fellows