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dorm

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɔːm//
  • United States//doɹm//
  • Australia//doːm//
  • Scotland//dɔɾm//
  • //dɔːm//

To reside in a dorm.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of dormitoryClipping of dormitory.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo reside in a dorm.

    I haven't seen Emily since I dormed with her in our student days.

    He spent a year at Wayne State University before transferring to Stanford to be with Chase. They dormed together at Crothers Hall, studied together at William Gould Hall and came home on vacations together.

Forms

plural
dorms
past tense
dormed
past participle
dormed
present participle
dorming
third person singular
dorms
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).