dormitory

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɔː.mɪ.tɹi/    美 /ˈdɔɹ.mɪˌtɔɹ.i/|/ˈdoː.mɪ.tɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — 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.
  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.

词形变化

dormitories plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dormantory dormcest dormitorywide dormobile interdormitory nondormitory
相关词
dormant dormition dormitive dorter dortoir dortour

词源

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