Cloister
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈklɔɪstə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cloister is a noun meaning A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:.
Meaning
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:.
More Meanings
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- (figuratively) The monastic life.
- (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
- (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
- (transitive) To protect or isolate.
Example Sentences
Unique condo cloistered on top of hill.
The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.
Word Forms
- cloisters
- cloistre
- cloistering
- cloistered
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include convent, monastery, peristyle, corridor, courtyard, colonnade.
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