See also:

• DORMITORY (Lat. dormitorium, a sleeping place)

DORMITORY (See also:

• LAT

Lat. dormitorium, a sleeping See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place)  , the name given in monasteries to the monks' sleeping apartment . Some-times it formed one See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• ROOM

room, but was more generally subdivided into as many cells or partitions as there were monks . It was generally placed on the first See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor with a See also:

• DIRECT

direct entrance into the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church . The dormitories were sometimes of See also:

• GREAT

great length; the longest known, in the monastery of S . Michele in Bosco near See also:

• BOLOGNA
• BOLOGNA, GIOVANNI DA (1524–1608)

Bologna (now suppressed), is said to have been over 400 ft . In some of the larger mansions of the Elizabethan See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period the space in the roof constitutes a long See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery, which in those days was occasionally utilized as a See also:

• DORMITORY (Lat. dormitorium, a sleeping place)

dormitory . The name " dormitory " is also applied to the large bedrooms with a number of beds, in See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools and similar See also:

• MODERN

modern institutes .