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

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However, gunshots rang out in the early hours of this morning near a university dormitory.

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