Dormitory
noun
A large room with many beds, where people can sleep.
When I went to college, I stayed in a dormitory with three other students.
Often appears as...
- college dormitory
- school dormitory
noun
A building providing sleeping and living quarters for large numbers of people, such as boarding school pupils or workers.
The workers were housed in a dormitory next to the factory.
Often appears as...
- worker's dormitory
- men's dormitory
noun
A large room with many beds, where people can sleep.
When I went to college, I stayed in a dormitory with three other students.
Often appears as...
- college dormitory
- school dormitory
noun
A building providing sleeping and living quarters for large numbers of people, such as boarding school pupils or workers.
The workers were housed in a dormitory next to the factory.
Often appears as...
- worker's dormitory
- men's dormitory
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Shared Living
Refer to dormitory when multiple people share one room for sleeping.
I made a lot of friends in the dormitory during my first year at university.
Pro Tip 2/3Educational Context
Dormitory often refers to accommodations within educational institutions.
The dormitory was right next to the university library which made studying convenient.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Stay
Use dormitory for temporary accommodations, typically related to studies or training.
During the summer camp, attendees stayed in a dormitory.
Pro Tip 1/3Shared Living
Refer to dormitory when multiple people share one room for sleeping.
I made a lot of friends in the dormitory during my first year at university.
Pro Tip 2/3Educational Context
Dormitory often refers to accommodations within educational institutions.
The dormitory was right next to the university library which made studying convenient.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Stay
Use dormitory for temporary accommodations, typically related to studies or training.
During the summer camp, attendees stayed in a dormitory.
Pro Tip 1/3Shared Living
Refer to dormitory when multiple people share one room for sleeping.
I made a lot of friends in the dormitory during my first year at university.
Pro Tip 2/3Educational Context
Dormitory often refers to accommodations within educational institutions.
The dormitory was right next to the university library which made studying convenient.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Stay
Use dormitory for temporary accommodations, typically related to studies or training.
During the summer camp, attendees stayed in a dormitory.
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And the thing is that no one is going to do this for us. There's no major in university on passion and purpose and career. I don't know how that's not a required double major, but don't even get me started on that. I mean, you spend more time picking out a dorm room TV set than you do you picking your major and your area of study.
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A tale of mental illness...
having the same experience of words jumping around our cases as I was. 'I think someone's infiltrated my copies of the cases,' I said. 'We've got to case the joint. I don't believe in joints, but they do hold your body together.'" -- It's an example of loose associations. -- "Eventually I made my way back to my dorm room,
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and then later his grandfather had flown over the pole himself and he he had sent a postcard to all of his grandchildren and i thought that was really neat and i hung that on my mirror uh in my in my college dormitory now my grandfather had said i had flown over the footsteps of robert
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Listening to shame -...
kind of dumb she said yeah and I said remember when we leave a really bad message on our ex-boyfriends answering machine then we'd have to break into his dorm room and then erase the tape and she goes no so of course the only thing I could be able to say at that point was yeah me
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Anant Agarwal: Why...
We have to move from bricks-and-mortar school buildings to digital dormitories. But I think at the end of the day, I think we will still need one lecture hall in our universities. Otherwise, how else do we tell our grandchildren that your grandparents sat in that room
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
was raped on her walk to the library, we would never celebrate the solution of moving the library closer to the dorm. And yet, for some reason, this is okay for poor people. Now the truth is, the traditional experts in economic development and poverty alleviation,
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How I Stopped the...
I wanted to be a doctor to help women and children. So I completed my education, but I wanted to go to university. Unfortunately, in my country, there wasn't a dormitory for girls, so I was accepted in medical school, but I could not go there.
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classes everyone can have the front-row seat it is affordable because it cut the cost of classrooms dormitories printed material millions of students are taking online classes these days all over the world the best universities of the world
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Laurie Garrett: What can...
spread within a dormitory, something of that nature. Then I think that there is universal agreement now, at WHO all the way Send out the alert. Audience Some research has indicated that statins can be helpful. Can you talk about that?
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Infrared Footage of...
the baboon's final destination is a series of small ledges high up on the cave wool safe beyond the reach of predators and protected by a roof of solid rock the cave dormitory stays warm
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How to find work you...
And the thing is that no one is going to do this for us. There's no major in university on passion and purpose and career. I don't know how that's not a required double major, but don't even get me started on that. I mean, you spend more time picking out a dorm room TV set than you do you picking your major and your area of study.
Video examples
A tale of mental illness...
having the same experience of words jumping around our cases as I was. 'I think someone's infiltrated my copies of the cases,' I said. 'We've got to case the joint. I don't believe in joints, but they do hold your body together.'" -- It's an example of loose associations. -- "Eventually I made my way back to my dorm room,
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A Man of the World PIPE...
and then later his grandfather had flown over the pole himself and he he had sent a postcard to all of his grandchildren and i thought that was really neat and i hung that on my mirror uh in my in my college dormitory now my grandfather had said i had flown over the footsteps of robert
Video examples
Listening to shame -...
kind of dumb she said yeah and I said remember when we leave a really bad message on our ex-boyfriends answering machine then we'd have to break into his dorm room and then erase the tape and she goes no so of course the only thing I could be able to say at that point was yeah me
Video examples
Anant Agarwal: Why...
We have to move from bricks-and-mortar school buildings to digital dormitories. But I think at the end of the day, I think we will still need one lecture hall in our universities. Otherwise, how else do we tell our grandchildren that your grandparents sat in that room
Video examples
Gary Haugen: The hidden...
was raped on her walk to the library, we would never celebrate the solution of moving the library closer to the dorm. And yet, for some reason, this is okay for poor people. Now the truth is, the traditional experts in economic development and poverty alleviation,
Video examples
How I Stopped the...
I wanted to be a doctor to help women and children. So I completed my education, but I wanted to go to university. Unfortunately, in my country, there wasn't a dormitory for girls, so I was accepted in medical school, but I could not go there.
Video examples
My plan to help refugees...
classes everyone can have the front-row seat it is affordable because it cut the cost of classrooms dormitories printed material millions of students are taking online classes these days all over the world the best universities of the world
Video examples
Laurie Garrett: What can...
spread within a dormitory, something of that nature. Then I think that there is universal agreement now, at WHO all the way Send out the alert. Audience Some research has indicated that statins can be helpful. Can you talk about that?
Video examples
Infrared Footage of...
the baboon's final destination is a series of small ledges high up on the cave wool safe beyond the reach of predators and protected by a roof of solid rock the cave dormitory stays warm
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Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
Two kids in their dorm room can't start anything important in space today. That's why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.
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Vito Fossella
American Politician
As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
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Lil Yachty
American Musician
When you come from living in a dorm room with no clothes, no girls, no cars, and then you go to having three cars, girls, and money, you can't help but be genuinely happy that things are moving in a positive direction.
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Harley Pasternak
Canadian Author
You don't need equipment of any kind to get a good workout in. In fact, you can get a good workout in the smallest of spaces, from a dorm room, to a studio apartment to a hotel room.
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Medgar Evers
American Activist
I plan to live on campus in a dormitory and to do all the things any other student of the law school might do: use the library, eat in the dining hall, attend classes.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.
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Nicholson Baker
American Novelist
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
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Roger Ross Williams
American Producer
My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American Baseball Player
After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian Businessman
Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.
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Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
Two kids in their dorm room can't start anything important in space today. That's why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.
Quote examples
Vito Fossella
American Politician
As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
Quote examples
Lil Yachty
American Musician
When you come from living in a dorm room with no clothes, no girls, no cars, and then you go to having three cars, girls, and money, you can't help but be genuinely happy that things are moving in a positive direction.
Quote examples
Harley Pasternak
Canadian Author
You don't need equipment of any kind to get a good workout in. In fact, you can get a good workout in the smallest of spaces, from a dorm room, to a studio apartment to a hotel room.
Quote examples
Medgar Evers
American Activist
I plan to live on campus in a dormitory and to do all the things any other student of the law school might do: use the library, eat in the dining hall, attend classes.
Quote examples
Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.
Quote examples
Nicholson Baker
American Novelist
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
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Roger Ross Williams
American Producer
My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American Baseball Player
After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian Businessman
Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.
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