different between dormition vs dormitory

English

Etymology

From Middle French dormition, from Latin dorm?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???m??(?)n/

Noun

dormition (countable and uncountable, plural dormitions)

1. The process of falling asleep.
2. (euphemistic) The process of death or the actual death itself.
3. (Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 507:

     The Virgin had allegedly given away her robe just before her death – what is in Eastern tradition called her Dormition, or falling asleep.

Synonyms

• sleep

Related terms

• dorm
• dormant
• dormitive
• dormitory

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??.mi.sj??/

Noun

dormition f (plural dormitions)

1. dormition

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