dorm

noun

ˈdȯrm

plural dorms

Synonyms of dorm next

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