student residence

Questions about student residence

What does student residence mean?

student residence means "a college or university building containing living quarters for students".

What is another word for student residence?

Close synonyms include dormitory, dorm, residence hall, hall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is student residence a common word?

student residence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.