† dormn.1
Obsolete. rare.
Sleep, slumber, a doze. in dorme: dormant.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > an instance of
dorm1512
dormitation1564
doss1858
kip1879
1512 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 339 Letting it [a sum of money] lyg in dorme, to the gret hurte of the towne.
1664 Sanderson's XXXIV Serm. (new ed.) 116 Not a calm and soft sleep, like that which our God giveth his beloved ones; but as the slumbring dormes of a sick man; very short, and..interrupted.
Derivatives
In Dialect Glossaries of Huddersfield, Sheffield, etc.
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dorm v. northern dialect to doze.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
dormn.2
/dɔːm/, U.S. /dɔrm/ colloquial.
= dormitory n. 1.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > bedroom > dormitory
dortourc1290
dormitory1485
dormer1605
dortory1636
common chamber1684
dorm1900
sleeping-quarters1919
1900 Dial. Notes 2 17 The student..lives in the dorm (dormitory).
1904 P. G. Wodehouse Gold Bat xiv. 153 It went into Rigby's dorm. So it must have been a chap in that dorm. who did it.
1927 A. MacDonald Dorty Speaking iii. 22 I found Midge in the dorm when I went up to change for tea.
1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza vi. 65 It was against the school rules to go up into the dorms during the day.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. p. ii/1 Much of it is a sort of smouldering defence of the original Tom Brown ritual: dorm feasts, fagging, hero worship, [etc.].
1969 C. Davidson in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 342 Female students are permitted to determine how strict or ‘liberal’ their dorm hours might be.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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