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dorm

/dɔːm/

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Australia/doːm/

dorm is the clipping of dormitory.

Meaning of dormitory

Noun

dormitory (plural dormitories)

  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.
    • She will be much more likely to meet his wishes after a residence at the castle, than an imprisonment on short commons in her dormitory in Welbeck Street; for in one case she only learnt how much she could endure, in the other she will find how much she can enjoy.1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages...
    Synonyms:
    dorm, dormitorium, dorter
  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.

Verb

dorm (third-person singular simple present dorms, present participle dorming, simple past and past participle dormed)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To reside in a dorm.
    • I haven't seen Emily since I dormed with her in our student days.
    • He spent a year at Wayne State University before transferring to Stanford to be with Chase. They dormed together at Crothers Hall, studied together at William Gould Hall and came home on vacations together.2008, Veronica Hulan, One of Those Nice Guys, page 11

Forms of dorm

Noun
pluraldorms
Verb
third-person singular presentdorms
present participledorming
past participledormed
pastdormed

Words formed from dorm

Words that rhyme with dorm

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Questions about dorm

What does dorm mean?
Dorm means to reside in a dorm.
What is dorm the clipping of?
Dorm is the clipping of dormitory.
What part of speech is dorm?
Dorm is a verb.
How do you pronounce dorm?
Dorm is pronounced /dɔːm/ (UK).
What is the past tense of dorm?
The past tense of dorm is dormed.

Words near dorm in the dictionary

  1. Dorland
  2. Dorlands
  3. dorlixizumab
  4. dorloch
  5. dorlochs
  6. dorm
  7. dorm-cest
  8. Dorman
  9. dormancies
  10. dormancy
  11. Dormand-Prince method

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dorm (page history and authors); dormitory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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