Editing Dormitory (section)

==Terminology==
[[File:Broward Hall.jpg|right|thumb|Broward Hall at the [[University of Florida]] in the 1960s]]

Dormitory is sometimes abbreviated to "dorm".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/dorm|title=Dorm|website=Collins Dictionary|access-date=20 December 2023}}</ref> In the UK, the word dormitory means a room (rather than a building) containing several beds accommodating unrelated people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dormitory|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925041636/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dormitory|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 25, 2016|title=dormitory - definition of dormitory in English {{!}} Oxford Dictionaries|website=Oxford Dictionaries {{!}} English|access-date=2017-04-26}}</ref> This arrangement exists typically for pupils at boarding schools, travellers and military personnel, but is almost entirely unknown for university students. Student housing is normally referred to as "halls"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hall|title=Hall|website=Cambridge Dictionary|access-date=20 December 2023|quote=a college or university building where students live}}</ref> or "halls of residence",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hall-of-residence|title=Hall of residence|website=Cambridge Dictionary|access-date=20 December 2023|quote=a college building where students live}}</ref> or "colleges" in universities with [[residential college]]s. A building providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people may also be called a house (members of a [[religious house|religious community]] or [[house system|pupils at a boarding school]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/house|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427100022/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/house|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 27, 2017|title=house - definition of house in English {{!}} Oxford Dictionaries (definition 3)|website=Oxford Dictionaries {{!}} English|access-date=2017-04-26}}</ref>), [[hostel]] (students, workers or travelers) or [[barracks]] (military personnel).

At colleges and universities in the US, the term "residence hall" is often used instead of "dormitory".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Residence Halls |url=https://www.uwindsor.ca/residence/1124/residence-halls |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=www.uwindsor.ca |language=en}}</ref> In Australia the terms "halls of residence" and "halls" are common, but "[[wikt:College#Noun|college]]" (or, more formally, "residential college") is also used in the cases of halls of residence that are named as such (e.g., [[Robert Menzies College]], [[Trinity College, Melbourne|Trinity College]] and [[Mannix College (Monash University)|Mannix College]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Australian National University - Housing {{!}} UCEAP |url=https://uceap.universityofcalifornia.edu/programs/australian-national-university/housing#:~:text=A%20variety%20of%20dorms,%20which,and%20catering%20option%20for%20meals. |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=uceap.universityofcalifornia.edu}}</ref>