Lodging vs Dormitory - What's the difference?
lodging | dormitory |
A place to live or lodge.
sleeping accommodation.
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(in the plural) Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.
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)
As nouns the difference between lodging and dormitory
is that lodging is a place to live or lodge 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.lodging
English
(wikipedia lodging)Noun
(en noun)- When I was a Cloister-monk, I was once sent to , and I had to beg a lodging there.