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dormitory
  1. A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
  2. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
  3. A dormitory town.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “It was a bit like a dormitory because all the volunteers brought proper camp beds.”
      “An outside dormitory door that led directly into one of the stairwells was in its fully open and unlocked position.”
      “In one instance, they entered a student dormitory brandishing clubs and lashing students with chains.”
dormer
  1. (architecture) a room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof
  2. dormer-window
  3. (Philippines) a resident of a dormitory
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I lay on top of the trunk and watched the dust drift from the dark of the cedar panelling into the hazy light glowing through the dormer window.”
      “The applicant sought to retain the clear glazed windows and openers, which had been installed at first floor level, and a dormer window.”
      “The en suite shower room has a tiled stand-in shower, a hand basin and a dormer window.”
dormcest
  1. (slang) Romantic and/or sexual involvement between students residing in the same dormitory.
dorm
  1. Clipping of dormitory.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He had been accepted to a good college somewhere in Florida and would be leaving in a few short months to get settled into a dorm.”
      “I clambered out onto the tree limb below my dorm window and hanging from the lowest branch dropped to the ground.”
      “Yesterday while crossing a road in front of the dorm the thought suddenly struck me.”
dormmate
  1. One who shares the same dorm.
dormitories
  1. plural of dormitory
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Similar measures were taken at the student dormitories of two universities and a construction site.”
      “It comprises about half a dozen buildings, including a small mosque, several houses and two cramped dormitories.”
      “In its dormitories, there are more than 300 cells, four chapels, guest-rooms and a cookhouse.”
dormmates
  1. plural of dormmate
dormers
  1. plural of dormer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Keeping a steep roof pitch and adding dormers to the new second story are good options.”
      “This one has a gambrel roof, wide shed roof dormers, and a shed roof over the porch.”
      “The house shown here has two gable roofs and two dormers, each with gable roofs of their own.”
dorms
  1. plural of dorm
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Several specialty dorms do not house freshwomen, but contain a mixture of the remaining three classes.”
      “After word got out about my test, I got dirty looks from several people in the dorms.”
      “This was in the late seventies, when we were supposed to be living in dorms.”
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