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dormitory Noun pl -ries 1. a large room, esp. at a school, containing several beds 2. a building, esp. at a college, providing living accommodation Adjective Brit & Austral denoting an area from which most of the residents commute to work: the swelling suburban dormitory areas [Latin dormitorium, from dormire to sleep]
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Translations (US) (= hall of residence); residencia, colegio mayor (US) (= hall of residence); résidence f universitaire (US) (building) → Wohnheim nt |
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Cisco was reached at seven in the morning; and an hour later the dormitory was transformed into an ordinary car, and the travellers could observe the picturesque beauties of the mountain region through which they were steaming. I've put him in the small dormitory for the present. His sitting-room was the first-floor front, his bedroom the second-floor front; and thus, whether he were sitting at his desk in his parlour, or standing before the dressing- glass in his dormitory, he had an equal opportunity of contemplating human nature in all the numerous phases it exhibits, in that not more populous than popular thoroughfare. |
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