Definition of Cloister

1. Noun. Residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery).

Exact synonyms: Religious Residence
Specialized synonyms: Convent, Monastery, Priory
Generic synonyms: Residence
Derivative terms: Cloistral

2. Verb. Surround with a cloister, as of a garden.
Generic synonyms: Border, Environ, Ring, Skirt, Surround

3. Noun. A courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions).
Generic synonyms: Court, Courtyard
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief

4. Verb. Surround with a cloister. "Cloister the garden"
Generic synonyms: Border, Environ, Ring, Skirt, Surround

5. Verb. Seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister. "She cloistered herself in the office"
Generic synonyms: Insulate, Isolate

Definition of Cloister

1. n. An inclosed place.

2. v. t. To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.

Definition of Cloister

1. Noun. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially: ¹

2. Noun. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion. ¹

3. Noun. (figuratively) The monastic life ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To provide with (a) cloister(s). ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To protect or isolate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cloister

1. to seclude [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: seclude

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloister

cloggier
cloggiest
cloggily
clogginess
clogging
cloggy
clogs
clogs to clogs in three generations
clogwyn
clogwyns
cloison
cloisonn
cloisonne
cloisonnes
cloisons
cloister (current term)
cloisteral
cloistered
cloisterer
cloisterers
cloistering
cloisterlike
cloisters
cloistral
cloistre
cloistres
cloistress
cloistresses
cloke
cloked

Literary usage of Cloister

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"At the Jacobins at Paris, a cloister lay to the north of the long narrow church of two parallel aisles, while the refectory—a room of immense length, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This earlier form of cloister has been generally superseded with us by a range of windows, usually unglazed, but sometimes, as at Gloucester, provided with ..."

3. Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street (1914)
"I have left to the last all notice of the beautiful cloister on the south side ... The arcades, which open into the cloister-court, are carried on columns, ..."

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