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Dormitory
Dormitory meaning
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. | A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities. | A dormitory town.
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However, he was enthused about completion of a boy’s dormitory and other ongoing development at the vocational school at Abura and pledged that the girls' dormitory would be renovated soon.
Bleeding profusely from his wounds, the deceased managed to climb the wall back to the School compound and fell behind this dormitory block as he could not make it to the dormitory for help, Superintendent Bediako said.
They give the following example of the interplay between these factors: Someone puts an announcement on the dormitory bulletin board about the formation of an intramural dormitory basketball team.
About 40 arrived in Otaru on the northern island of Hokkaido, where they were housed in a big, shabby dormitory.
An Oct. 19 dedication ceremony for the combined student center and dormitory drew university leaders, rabbis and students, as well as Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
An unidentified person placed numerous large swastikas on the walls inside the bathroom of a campus dormitory, similar to a previous attack last year.
Apart from a dormitory and five rooms, the BJP office where the two are holed up has a common toilet and a canteen.
August Raudvassar, a second-year student at Tartu Health College, told ERR he did not apply for a dormitory spot this year because he knew how hard it would be.
Daguinsin, 22, was found lifeless with 14 stab wounds on March 28 inside her dormitory room.
During the first summer of camps in 1953, campers utilized the old school building for a dormitory and chapel, an open pavilion for a dining hall, a pond for swimming, a grassy area for tent camping and springs for water.
He said that he never did but had a dormitory roommate who was playing it, where he was watching him play the game.
In this photo provided by Wang Xi, students evacuate from their dormitory at the Lanzhou University Yuzhong campus in Lanzhou in northwestern China's Gansu province Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, after an earthquake hit the area.
Members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, attacked Lhubirira secondary school in Mpondwe, burning a dormitory and looting food late on Friday, police said.
Migrants grieve in front at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, where a fire in a dormitory left more than three dozen migrants dead.
Mpondwe-Lhubiriha Mayor Selevest Mapoze told The Associated Press that some of the students suffered fatal burns when a dormitory was set on fire.
Reportedly, 63 female students were present in the dormitory at the time of the fire.
The body of a 40-year-old man was pulled from the rubble on a dormitory’s fifth floor, according to regional police chief Andrii Nebytov.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack, has recommended that 19 murder charges be instituted against the teenager who allegedly started last Sunday’s tragic fire at the Mahdia Secondary School Dormitory, according to well-placed sources.
The flag-raising ceremony to usher in Guyana’s 57th independence anniversary was transformed into an evening of prayer and reflection in honour of the 19 students who lost their lives in the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory fire on Sunday last.
The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association has extended deepest condolences to the families, relatives and friends of those who lost their lives in the tragic fire at the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory Sunday night.