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 teaser begins with the unruly foursome up to their usual antics, as Kimberly (Chalamet) and Whitney (Scott) return to their dorm in the morning to find Bela (Kaur) and Leighton (Rapp) waiting. —

Julia Moore, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024 The half-moon devices come in fun colors and are a perfect fit for a colorful office or dorm room. —

Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for dorm