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.
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The room was later deemed safe, and Jager was told to remove all chemicals and stop cooking in his dorm. Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2025 International premiere | Short Film Arthur and Julian share a dorm at a boys’ boarding school. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025 Josh would always go out of his way to pick me up from the dorms. Rustin Dodd, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025 In 2021, a traveler who recorded a visit to one school in Garze, a Tibetan area in Sichuan Province, said that the dorms looked nice but that there weren’t enough beds. Chris Buckley, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for dorm 

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 29 Jan. 2025.

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dorm

noun
informal

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