Dormitory

:The term dormitory is also often applied to suburbs or towns adjacent to large cities. For instance, Porirua is a dormitory city for Wellington, New Zealand. (In the United States, these would be called bedroom communities, and they are also referred to in some countries as commuter towns.)

Sleeping dormitory

A common usage of the term 'dormitory' is for a large room with many single beds. This is the common UK usage. Examples are found in many rooming houses such as hostels, fraternities, sororities, and other scholarship halls. The room typically is a large room with very few furnishings except for beds. Such rooms can contain anywhere from 2 to hundreds of beds (though such very large rooms are rare except perhaps as military barracks). Such rooms provide little or no privacy for the residents, and very limited storage for personal items in or near the beds. Storage and personal spaces is often provided in other locations in the building, but these other locations are not usually called a 'dorm'.

Related Topics:
Hostel - Fraternities - Sororities - Scholarship hall - Military barracks

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