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
Randall Sullivan… writing about differences between coed dorms and single-sex dorms.—Karen Frantz
Karen FrantzThe pigeons descend on her, fluttering noisily as she makes her way to a bench outside my freshman dorm.—Julie Zickefoose
Julie ZickefooseExamples of dorm in a Sentence
We all lived in the same dorm during our sophomore year.
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Sitting in a Cairo dorm room, Ms. Alrashid and Ms. Suleiman were out of choices.
—Kate Okorie, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
In his dorm room, campus police had discovered a suicide note as well as a corkboard covered in thumbtacks that seemed to map out the school’s underground steam tunnels.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
Were the returning sets easy to reconstruct, or was there anything tricky about recreating things like the dorm room and Red Light/Green Light?
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Dec. 2024
Bounce is a beach-club-vibe hostel brand with Queensland locations in Noosa, Cairns, and Airlie Beach (from $32 for a spot in a mixed dorm).
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2024
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Kate Okorie, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025
In his dorm room, campus police had discovered a suicide note as well as a corkboard covered in thumbtacks that seemed to map out the school’s underground steam tunnels.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
Were the returning sets easy to reconstruct, or was there anything tricky about recreating things like the dorm room and Red Light/Green Light?
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Dec. 2024
Bounce is a beach-club-vibe hostel brand with Queensland locations in Noosa, Cairns, and Airlie Beach (from $32 for a spot in a mixed dorm).
—Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2024
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“Dorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dorm. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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