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where strangers become family and silence goes to die at 3am
means A large room or building with many beds, especially one providing sleeping quarters for students at a school or college.
from From the Latin dormitorium, 'a sleeping place,' built on the verb dormire, 'to sleep' — the same drowsy root that gives us dormant (lying asleep) and dormouse (the famously sleepy creature Alice found napping at the tea party). English borrowed it in the 15th century, and the breezy shortening 'dorm' is a much later, much sleepier-sounding offspring.
- latin root
- dormire means to sleep, which never happens here
- anagram
- dormitory unscrambles into dirty room, fittingly
- fire hazard
- most dorm fires start from unattended cooking gadgets
- social experiment
- randomly assigned roommates shape lifelong friendships and feuds
- resident advisors
- underpaid students policing chaos for free rent
for instance
harvard's hollis hall — oldest continuously occupied college dormitory in the us, built 1763
christ church oxford — 14th-century residential college at oxford university, england