A typical Sixth form common room. The sixth form, in the English, Welsh and Northern Irish education systems Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Belize

The phrase common room is used especially in British and Canadian English to describe a type of shared lounge, most often found in dormitories, at (for example) universities, military bases, hospitals, rest homes, hostels, and even minimum-security prisons. Dormitory typically refers in the United States to residence halls which are sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects Etymology The word bases is first recorded in English language from c A hospital is an institution for Health care providing treatment by specialised staff and equipment and often but not always providing for SNF redirects here For the sports show see NBC Sunday Night Football. Hostels provide budget-oriented accommodation where guests can rent a bed, sometimes a Bunk bed in a Dormitory and share a bathroom A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of It is generally connected to several private rooms, and may incorporate a bathroom. A bathroom is a room that may have different functions depending on the cultural context

Common rooms are generally much more spacious than the adjoining private rooms, and generally contain couches, televisions, coffee tables, and other generic lounge furniture. A couch is an upholstered item of Furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person and typically has an armrest on either side Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic A coffee table, also called a cocktail table, is a style of long low table which is designed to be placed in front of a Couch, to support Beverages Furniture is the Mass noun for the movable objects which may support the human body (seating furniture and beds, provide storage or hold objects on horizontal

Depending on its location and purpose of use, a common room may be known by another name. For instance, in mental hospitals, where access is usually restricted to the daytime hours, this type of room is often called a "day room". A psychiatric hospital (previously called insane asylum, mental hospital; or derogatorily looney bin, nut house or Funny Farm) is