dormer means A surname from Irish.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, dormer ranks #496 of 20,679 for Qualifying.
dormer is pronounced /ˈdɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)/.
Etymology
Most probably an English habitational surname, but if so the place of origin has not been identified. It could also be a reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Díorma.
name
- A surname from Irish.
noun
- A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof.“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.”
- A resident of a dormitory.“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”