Dormitory vs Campus - What's the difference?
dormitory | campus |
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)
The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
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To confine to campus as a punishment.
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As nouns the difference between dormitory and campus
is that 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 while campus is the grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.As a verb campus is
to confine to campus as a punishment.dormitory
English
(wikipedia dormitory)Noun
(dormitories)Synonyms
* Common abbreviation: dormSee also
* dorter, dortoir, dortourExternal links
* * *campus
English
Noun
(es)Mr Geek goes to Washington, passage=From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street