(dormitories)
1.
A ~ is a large bedroom where several people sleep, for example in a boarding school.
...the boys’ ~...
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2.
A ~ is a building in a college or university where students live. (AM; in BRIT, use hall of residence )
She lived in a college ~.
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3.
If you refer to a place as a ~ suburb or town, you mean that most of the people who live there travel to work in another, larger town a short distance away. (BRIT)
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