The word "dormitory" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "dormitory" any time you are referring to a residence hall, especially when it is a place where college students live. Example: Every summer, the college dormitory was opened to host family reunions.
The toilets are routinely broken or lacking in number, and the conditions in one dormitory were so bad that Amnesty International "considers the accommodation of asylum seekers there a violation of the prohibition on torture and other ill-treatment".
Or 20 verses on their earth-shattering memories of the boarding school dormitory, and the epic tug-of-love between Matron and Teddy.
It refers both to a physical space – communal dormitory, common room and washroom – and the 100-120 woccupyingpyitg it.
The audience of this Essex dormitory town were rapt.
Just after dawn on 6 July, a school dormitory was doused in petrol and set alight in north-eastern Yobe.
Last week, suburban London tube stations, built to ferry City commuters to and from their "dormitory town" homes, witnessed far from sleepy scenes as police implemented potentially illegal spot checks at stops such as Walthamstow Central and Southall.
For half a year after Boko Haram gunmen snatched 17-year-old Monica from her dormitory in Chibok, he stayed on in the town even as militants repeatedly attacked it, hoping each day she might return.
One idea, says Thierry Breton, the finance minister, is "to restore economic activity to the suburbs so that they do not become dormitory zones".
HUANG YIXIN and Wei Wei, two students at the Guangzhou College of Fine Arts, were hanging around their dormitory last summer and decided as one does to turn on their webcam, put on their Houston-Rockets jerseys and lip-synch a few of their favourite songs by the Backstreet Boys.
Video footage from the scene showed damaged university buildings, including a dormitory, with belongings scattered on the ground.Aleppo, Syria's most populous city and former commercial hub, has been ravaged by war since July, when rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's regime moved into the city.
Maybe it was the dormitory leader at university, a disciplinarian who prepared students for traditional company life by running his own seniority system.
