Examples of “dormitory” in a Sentence

noun A large room or building with many beds, used for communal sleeping, especially by students.

• Freshmen at the college must live in the dormitory next to the library.
• She spent her first year of university living in a noisy dormitory.
• The hostel dormitory slept up to twelve backpackers a night.

noun A suburb or town whose residents mostly commute elsewhere for work.

• The village had become little more than a dormitory town for commuters into the city.