Quarters vs Dormitory - What's the difference?
quarters | dormitory |
(pluralonly, military) Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.
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quarterfinals.
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 quarters and dormitory
is that quarters is plural of lang=en 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.quarters
English
Noun
(head)citation, passage=“I have visited my quarters , and find them very comfortable.