dormobile

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noun

A campervan.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

noundormobile (plural dormobiles)

plural dormobiles

  1. A campervan.

    He bought cheap vans and when they had served their purpose sold them again; some were old wrecks which he would tinker with, keeping them on the road and fitted out like home-grown dormobiles[…]

    1992, Penelope Hansen, My father and me: New Zealand women remember, page 27
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    The children were supposed to be asleep in various trailers, caravans and dormobiles scattered about the yard, but deep into the night we could hear the sounds of giggling and scampering as they decamped from one vehicle to the next[…]

    1989, Alison Payne, Upon a White Horse, page 150

    For this purpose he drove from Cornwall in a dormobile at regular intervals to survey four study areas in West Wales, selected to include key chough sites and their relevance to his Cornish research.

    2005, Lucy Newlyn, Chatter of Choughs, page 66

Origin

After the Bedford Dormobile, a 1960s campervan, presumably from dormitory + -mobile.

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APA

dormobile. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dormobile

MLA

“dormobile.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dormobile. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dormobile,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dormobile.

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