dormitory

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
• A dormitory town.

Related

Similar words

• dorm (common abbreviation)

Origin

• From Middle English dormitory, dormytory, dormytorye, borrowed from Latin dormītōrium ("a sleeping-room"), from dormiō. dorter.