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A dormitory (often to "dorm") is a building, or a large room inside one, where a group of people sleep — most commonly used for student housing at a university or boarding school, where students live in rooms, sometimes sharing them with roommates. It can also describe a large shared sleeping room in general, like in an old-style where many beds are lined up in one room.
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組成From Latin "dormire," meaning "to sleep," + -tory (a place for).
同家族的字
- dormantdormitory and dormant both come from the Latin root dormire, meaning to sleep
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dormitorynoun/ˈdɔː.mɪ.tɹi/
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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.
- She will be much more likely to meet his wishes after a residence at the castle, than an imprisonment on short commons in her dormitory in Welbeck Street; for in one case she only learnt how much she could endure, in the other she will find how much she can enjoy.
- The foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova was responding to a report last week about an item in the 2024 US air force budget for building a dormitory at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk for personnel on a “potential surety mission” – military jargon for nuclear safety and security.
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A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
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A dormitory town.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。