Dormant vs Dormitory - What's the difference?
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Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
* Burke
(heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
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. Common abbreviation: dorm
A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
Short for dormitory town, a suburban or rural settlement housing city workers
(Dormitory town)
Dormitory is a related term of dormant.
As an adjective dormant
is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.As a noun dormitory is
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. Common abbreviation: dorm.dormant
English
Alternative forms
* dormaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
- The bank account was dormant ; there had been no transactions in months.
- This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
- It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
- a lion dormant