dormer

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɹmɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːmə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)

dormer (1, in blue) with dormer-window (2, in white)

From Middle French dormoir (“sleeping room”), from dormir (“to sleep”).

dormer (plural dormers)

1. (architecture) A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof.
   • 1904 May, Winston Churchill, “The Strange City”, in The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book II (Flotsam and Jetsam), page 371:

     Then we came to a high white wall that surrounded a large garden, and within it was a long, massive building of some beauty and pretension, with a high, latticed belfry and heavy walls and with arched dormers in the sloping roof.

2. (architecture) Ellipsis of dormer-window..

• dormer window

dorm +‎ -er

dormer (plural dormers)

1. (Philippines) A resident of a dormitory.
   • 2004, mae, edited by Reginald Ting, True Philippine Ghost Stories #8: Spooky Dorm‎, Psicom Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 38:

     My dorm mates and I had a little get-together in our room on the second floor. We were just talking and weren't making much noise when we heard a knock on our door. It was a dormer from the room directly below us. She asked if we were cleaning and we told her that we weren't. She left but came back a little while later and asked the same question again. We asked her if our matron wants us to clean up. The dormer said no and left. But after a few minutes, she came up again and again asked if we were cleaning our room because she could hear the noise down in her room.

• remord

From Latin dormīre, present active infinitive of dormiō.

dormer (second person singular present duarmi, past participle dormait)

1. to sleep