different between backpacker vs dormitory

English

Etymology

From backpack +? -er.

Noun

backpacker (plural backpackers)

1. A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English backpacker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k?p?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: back?pac?ker

Noun

backpacker m (plural backpackers)

1. backpacker

   Synonyms: rugzakreiziger, rugzaktoerist

English

Etymology

From Middle English dormitory, dormytory, dormytorye, borrowed from Latin dorm?t?rium (“a sleeping-room”), from dormi? (“to sleep”). Doublet of dorter.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??m??t??i/

Noun

dormitory (plural dormitories)

1. 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.
2. A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
3. A dormitory town.

Synonyms

• (room for sleeping) dorm (common abbreviation)

Related terms

• dorm
• dormant
• dormitive
• dormition

Translations

See also

• dorter, dortoir, dortour

Further reading

• dormitory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dormitory in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• dormitory at OneLook Dictionary Search