# dormitory

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈdɔː.mɪ.tɹi/ · frequency rank #24,732

## Definitions
1. 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.
2. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
3. A dormitory town.

## Etymology
From Middle English dormitory, dormytory, dormytorye, borrowed from Latin dormītōrium (“a sleeping-room”), from dormiō (“to sleep”). Doublet of dormitorium and dorter.

## Common misspellings (14)
`ddormitory`, `domritory`, `dorimtory`, `dormiotry`, `dormitorry`, `dormitoryy`, `dormitoyr`, `dormitroy`, `dormittory`, `dormmitory`, `dormtiory`, `dorrmitory`, `dromitory`, `odrmitory`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/dormitory