DORMITORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dormitory mean? 

• DORMITORY (noun)
  The noun DORMITORY has 2 senses:

1. a college or university building containing living quarters for students

2. a large sleeping room containing several beds

  Familiarity information: DORMITORY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DORMITORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A college or university building containing living quarters for students

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dorm; dormitory; hall; residence hall; student residence

Hypernyms ("dormitory" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dormitory"):

hall of residence (a university dormitory)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large sleeping room containing several beds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dorm room; dormitory; dormitory room

Hypernyms ("dormitory" is a kind of...):

bedchamber; bedroom; chamber; sleeping accommodation; sleeping room (a room used primarily for sleeping)

 Context examples 

The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect; a stone tablet over the door bore this inscription:—Lowood Institution.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It might be two hours later, probably near eleven, when I—not having been able to fall asleep, and deeming, from the perfect silence of the dormitory, that my companions were all wrapt in profound repose—rose softly, put on my frock over my night-dress, and, without shoes, crept from the apartment, and set off in quest of Miss Temple's room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When I awoke it was day: an unusual movement roused me; I looked up; I was in somebody's arms; the nurse held me; she was carrying me through the passage back to the dormitory.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

That forest-dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence; which, quickening with the quickening spring, crept into the Orphan Asylum, breathed typhus through its crowded schoolroom and dormitory, and, ere May arrived, transformed the seminary into an hospital.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They now proceeded to address divers remarks and reproofs to Miss Smith, who was charged with the care of the linen and the inspection of the dormitories: but I had no time to listen to what they said; other matters called off and enchanted my attention.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)