Dormitory

A dormitory (originated from the Latin word dormitorium,[1] often abbreviated to dorm)[2] is a room that sleeps multiple people.[3][4] It may also refer (in the US) to a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as student accommodation for university or college students,[3][4] or, with reference to military personnel, a barracks.

A building providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people may also be called a house (members of a religious community or pupils at a boarding school),[5] or a hostel (students, workers or travelers).

  1. ^ "Dormitory, n. and adj., originally a sleeping chamber, especially a room containing many beds where monks, teachers and students sleep (1485), in American usage a residence hall at a university or college (1865). From the Latin dormitorium." @wordorigins.org Archived 2014-12-30 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 26 September 2014
  2. ^ "Dorm". Collins Dictionary. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b "dormitory - definition of dormitory in English | Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on September 25, 2016. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  4. ^ a b "Dormitory". Retrieved 29 August 2025. 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
  5. ^ "house - definition of house in English | Oxford Dictionaries (definition 3)". Oxford Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on April 27, 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
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