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 residents of the dorm room were home at the time, smelled smoke and went to investigate. —

Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024 The Basile facility quarantined the dorm where the Chinese migrant was housed and conducted tests of the detainees in that dorm for drug-resistant tuberculosis. —

Louis Casiano, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2024 Towering high-rise dorms have popped up everywhere, turning UCSD into a mini-city. —

Gary Robbins, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024 The bad luck was picking low card in the housing draw, relegating us to annex housing in the attic of a freshman dorm. —

Ryan Craig, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dorm