Dormitory vs Residence - What's the difference?
dormitory | residence |
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 place where one lives.
* Macaulay
A building used as a home.
The place where a corporation is established.
The state of living in a particular place or environment.
* Sir M. Hale
The place where anything rests permanently.
* Milton
subsidence, as of a sediment
That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
As nouns the difference between dormitory and residence
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 residence is residence (place where one resides).dormitory
English
(wikipedia dormitory)Noun
(dormitories)Synonyms
* Common abbreviation: dormSee also
* dorter, dortoir, dortourExternal links
* * *residence
English
Noun
(en noun)- Johnson took up his residence in London.
- The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
- But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Jeremy Taylor)