Meaning

A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:.

Definitions by Sense

1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
2. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
3. (figuratively) The monastic life.
4. (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
5. (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
6. (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
7. (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
8. (transitive) To protect or isolate.

Example Sentences

The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.

Unique condo cloistered on top of hill.

Word Forms

• cloisters
• cloistre
• cloistering
• cloistered

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When Should You Use Cloister?

Use cloister when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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