Dormitory vs Corridor - What's the difference?
dormitory | corridor |
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)
A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see ).
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors . Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
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Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
As nouns the difference between dormitory and corridor
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 corridor is a narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see ).dormitory
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(wikipedia dormitory)Noun
(dormitories)Synonyms
* Common abbreviation: dormSee also
* dorter, dortoir, dortourExternal links
* * *corridor
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(en noun)Death Walks in Eastrepps, passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}
