Sekirov Dictionary

cloister

UK /ˈklɔɪstə/US /ˈklɔɪstɚ/

verb5

  1. To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
  2. To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
  3. To protect or isolate.
  4. To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
  5. To become a Roman Catholic religious.

noun5

  1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle.
  2. such an arcade in a monastery;
  3. such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
  4. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
  5. (figurative) The monastic life.
forms

cloistered · cloistering · cloisters

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