plural dorms
informal
: dormitory
In Norway, Tonya and Kerrigan were housed in the same dorm on the campus of the Toneheim Music School.Randall Sullivan
… writing about differences between coed dorms and single-sex dorms.Karen Frantz
The pigeons descend on her, fluttering noisily as she makes her way to a bench outside my freshman dorm.Julie Zickefoose

Examples of dorm in a Sentence

We all lived in the same dorm during our sophomore year.
Recent Examples on the Web Eagle-eyed fans have long speculated over the symbolism of the broken frog snow globe that sits on the desk in Wilhelm’s dorm room. Max Gao, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024 Their dorm room research developed into a dissolvable powder that aimed to protect neurons in people with ALS by reducing cellular stress and dysfunction. Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024 Josiah Malachi Kilman, 18, was found unresponsive shortly after midnight Saturday in his dorm room. Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 26 Feb. 2024 On a recent Wednesday evening, Turner and about nine of her friends squeezed into a small dorm room and passed around pizza and chocolate chip cookies. Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024 There was the time at a hostel on Mykonos when, apparently, Roy sat on a top bunk, his legs dangling while Mandy stood between them sucking him off, and some raucous Croatian girls burst into the dorm. Fiona McFarlane, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 Friends and family of a beloved freshman athlete at a Christian Kentucky college cannot fathom why his wrestling teammate allegedly strangled him in his dorm room just days before their team traveled to Kansas to compete for a national championship. Christina Coulter, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2024 Major, 21 Major had just arrived in Avdiivka in the second week of February and set up in an old, two-story student dorm when waves of Russian troops began crashing against his unit’s position. Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024 The student at Campbellsville University in Kentucky who was found dead in his dorm room died by manual strangulation, the coroner announced Monday. Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of dorm was in 1900

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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dorm. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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dorm

noun

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