What's the difference between dormitory and hostel?

Dormitory


Definition:

  • (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
  • (n.) A burial place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Four University of the Free State students filmed themselves drinking in a bar and then one of them urinating into a stew before feeding it to five black staff members, four of them women, at their dormitory on the Bloemfontein campus accompanied by shouts of "take it, take it".
  • (2) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
  • (3) Forty-one (48%) of 86 students and 38 (28%) of 137 staff members in the two dormitories with the lowest functioning students were ill. Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli 0124:H30 was isolated from 20 persons including six staff members, 13 students, and the ill mother of one of the students.
  • (4) How else do you think I survived the dormitory at boarding school, or those working men's clubs?
  • (5) Thousands of Muslims attended the funeral for victims of the fire which broke out in an Islamic school dormitory.
  • (6) Dust and mites were significantly less in dormitories with linoleum than those with carpets (P less than .05 and .01, respectively).
  • (7) After visiting families all over his state, he built two female dormitories so that at least 100 women can stay at the school and be free from the responsibilities they have at home.
  • (8) Young people from outside Beijing often rent shared rooms, or even dormitory housing (as cheap as £30 or £40 a month), some of them in illegal underground basements .
  • (9) It covers more than a square mile and contains fast food outlets, stores and banks as well as the huge production buildings and dormitories.
  • (10) These 5 dishes were situated and remained in place for 60 minutes; the 4 interior ones were placed in different locations and always included the dormitory and living room.
  • (11) Measures of interpersonal behaviors exhibited by depressed college students toward their dormitory roommates were cluster analyzed, and this procedure produced 2 relatively distinct subgroups: a dependent, friendly, overgenerous type and an autocratic, competitive, aggressive, mistrustful type.
  • (12) Residents said the rebels, who rose up in April to demand independence from Kiev in the mainly Russian-speaking east, had dug trenches in downtown Donetsk outside the main university, where they have been living in student dormitories.
  • (13) Little more than three years after its birth in a Harvard University dormitory, the social networking website Facebook has become one of the most expensive internet start-ups in history, with a valuation of $15bn (£7.3bn) under a financing deal with the software group Microsoft .
  • (14) Within the Region substantial differences occur in death rates from heart disease among the five urban local government areas, the highest being in the coal-mining district of Cessnock and the lowest in the resort and dormitory area of Port Stephens.
  • (15) Although there are "hygiene rooms" in the dormitories, there is also "general hygiene room" with a corrective and punitive purpose.
  • (16) We didn’t expect the donations we got from people here, I was really overwhelmed,” she said, in a house that doubled as a temporary dormitory for mothers with young children before Slovenian authorities arranged for trains to continue straight over the border.
  • (17) Once they get off production line they live in cramped dormitories, often with strangers.
  • (18) He said the senator told him: “Be a good boy and do as you are told otherwise you will never go home.” A woman described an incident in which three men in their 30s, “scruffy looking with Jersey accents”, came into the dormitory one night and raped a girl in turn, egging each other on.
  • (19) Heading to their crowded dormitory after a night shift, several workers said pressure and the frequent scolding by management might be factors.
  • (20) Eric Goodby, 54, who runs an engraving and jewellery design firm with his father, Ken, 81, claimed Birmingham would be turned into a glorified dormitory town for London commuters.

Hostel


Definition:

  • (n.) An inn.
  • (n.) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
  • (2) Moontain Hostel is a new pad for skiers on a budget, with dorm beds from just €20 and private rooms from €60.
  • (3) Newham council said some of the women in the hostel might qualify for the 15 units it makes available each year for hostel leavers.
  • (4) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
  • (5) Under a partnership that dates back at least a decade, the Greater Manchester West NHS trust posts two community psychiatric nurses (CPNs), plus a support worker, at the probation service-run hostel.
  • (6) Staff from Hostel B displayed higher levels of EE, and were more critical, and these attitudes generalised easily into hostility and rejection.
  • (7) Tomlinson had been an alcoholic for some years and was living in a homeless hostel.
  • (8) Tweedle added that the ban has meant that it was now less common in hostels, but peoplewere still getting hold of it.
  • (9) The mothers and mothers-to-be – all under 25, many of them teenagers – have been served with eviction notices by the housing association that runs the hostel.
  • (10) Hostels are having to care for long term severely affected psychiatric patients discharged into the community.
  • (11) We recommend the development of a peripatetic service as outlined in this study, offering health care at hostels, day centres and other places where the homeless are to be found.
  • (12) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.
  • (13) It’s operated by a young, talented photographer called Bheki Dube and his influence is everywhere – the hostel decor is fantastic – think industrial-chic warehouse apartment with lots of quirky touches.
  • (14) 73 Kloof Street, +27 21 424 6169, onceincapetown.co.za The Backpack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Founder-owners Toni Shina and Lee Harris have created a homely hostel spread across four adjoining houses with cool courtyards and flowery gardens, a chillout lounge, communal kitchen, health-food cafe and terrace bar.
  • (15) Data were gathered from 175 residents of 150 living units--mental handicap hospital wards, voluntary and private homes, local authority hostels and parental homes.
  • (16) The aim was to test the assumption that mass miniature x ray screening of the single homeless (hostel residents) is a cost-effective means of controlling pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • (17) She was just 17 and she had moved to a hostel in Victoria.
  • (18) About two thirds of the total time in the two institutions was spent in the hostel.
  • (19) A decision for hostel care instead of home care was associated with a low level of informal support and the absence of a carer who was a spouse or daughter.
  • (20) The friend's walls were covered in cheap porn, and every person I speak to in the hostel has ferocious love-bites on their necks.