residence hall

noun

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

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Students seeking support during this time should reach out to counseling services or their residence hall director, according to SCSU. Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2025 After being denied entrance to the residence hall, they were later found disrupting a local business, the university said. Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025 Cops said two of the three Temple suspects approached a university residence hall around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, identified themselves as ICE agents and demanded access to the building while another filmed the interaction, according to CBS Philadelphia. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025 The university took on the case after a UA student described to authorities being raped by Higgs on Oct. 20 in her dorm room in the Northwest Quad residence hall. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 14 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 9 Mar. 2025.

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