dormitory

Betekenis (Engels)

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.
2. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
3. A dormitory town.

Sinonieme

hostel

dorm

hall of residence

residence hall

hall of residence

student residence

hall

bedroom

dorm room

dormitory room

boarding house

lodging house

refuge

resting-place

rooming house

scuttle

shelter

skylight

youth hostel

bedroom suburb

dorm term hall

student hostel

sleeping place

dorter

dortour

student lodging

transom window

dormitory suburb

dorm

billet

boarding school

dormer

dwelling

guest room

hatch

home

🏠

house

🏠

hut

🛖

living quarters

lodgings

Vertalings

dormitorio

🏠

dortoir

Schlafsaal

dormitorio

Studentenheim

Studentenwohnheim

dormitório

υπνωτήριο

Wohnheim

yatakhane

camerata

υπνοθάλαμος

Dormitorium

foyer

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈdɔː.mɪ.tɹi/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: dormitory

In summary

From Middle English dormitory, dormytory, dormytorye, borrowed from Latin dormītōrium (“a sleeping-room”), from dormiō (“to sleep”). Doublet of dormitorium and dorter.