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Bedroom vs Dormitory - What's the difference?

bedroom | dormitory |

As nouns the difference between bedroom and dormitory

is that bedroom is a room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping while 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.

bedroom

Noun

(en noun)
  • A room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
    Please don't enter my bedroom without knocking.

    Synonyms

    * sleeping quarters, sleeping pad

    Derived terms

    * bedroom community

    dormitory

    Noun

    (dormitories)
  • 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)

    Synonyms

    * Common abbreviation: dorm

    See also

    * dorter, dortoir, dortour