residence hall

noun

formal, US
: a place where students live at a college or university

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When it was built, the residence hall was the first new student housing to be constructed on the Storrs campus in six years and nearly two decades before that. Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2025 The incident occurred around 4 p.m. at Wilgus Hall, a student residence hall, when university police responded to a disturbance and found two women with gunshot wounds. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 21 May 2025 Police reported a car struck another vehicle, veered off the road and came to a stop in front of the residence hall. Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2025 The individuals were denied access to the residence hall, according to Temple. Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for residence hall

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“Residence hall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/residence%20hall. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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