1. A room providing sleeping quarters for a number of persons.
2. A building for housing a number of persons, as at a school or resort.
3. A community whose inhabitants commute to a nearby city for employment and recreation.

1. A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. common abbreviation: dorm
2. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
3. short for dormitory town, a suburban or rural settlement housing city workers

1. A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
2. A burial place.

1. A place, building, or room to sleep in.
2. that part of a boarding-school or other institution where the inmates sleep, usually a large room, either open or divided by low partitions, or a series of rooms opening upon a common hall or corridor: in american colleges, sometimes an entire building divided into sleeping-rooms.
3. A burial-place; a cemetery. see cemetery, which has the same etymological meaning.

1. a large sleeping room containing several beds
2. a college or university building containing living quarters for students