Dormitory vs. Accommodation — What's the Difference?

A dormitory (originated from the Latin word dormitorium, often abbreviated to dorm) is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university students. In some countries, it can also refer to a room containing several beds accommodating people.

A room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay

A large bedroom for a number of people in a school or institution

A convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise

A building for housing a number of persons, as at a school or resort.

The process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something

A room providing sleeping quarters for a number of persons.

The act of accommodating or the state of being accommodated; adjustment.

A community whose inhabitants commute to a nearby city for employment and recreation.

Something that meets a need; a convenience.

A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.

Room and board; lodgings.

A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.

A seat, compartment, or room on a public vehicle.

A dormitory town.

Reconciliation or settlement of opposing views.

A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.

(Physiology) The automatic adjustment in the focal length of the lens of the eye to permit retinal focus of images of objects at varying distances.

A burial place.

A financial favor, such as a loan.

A college or university building containing living quarters for students

Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

A large sleeping room containing several beds

(physical) Adaptation or adjustment.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

(personal) Adaptation or adjustment.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

(countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

A loan of money.

An accommodation bill or note.

An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.

(theology) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.

The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.

Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; - followed by to.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; - often in the plural; as, the accommodations - that is, lodgings and food - at an inn.

An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

A loan of money.

Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

A settlement of differences;

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

Living quarters provided for public convenience;

The act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye