dormmate

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English

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Etymology

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From dorm +‎ -mate.

Noun

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dormmate (plural dormmates)

  1. One who shares the same dorm.
    • 2007 July 29, Mark Leibovich, “In the ’60s, a Future Candidate Poured Her Heart Out in Letters”, in New York Times[1]:
      In other letters, she would convey a mounting exasperation with her rigid conservative father and disdain for both “debutante” dormmates and an acid-dropping friend.