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Definition of Cloister

1. Verb. Surround with a cloister, as of a garden.

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

3. Verb. Surround with a cloister. "Cloister the garden"

4. Noun. A courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions).

5. Verb. Seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister. "She cloistered herself in the office"

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"This earlier form of cloister has been generally superseded with us by a range of windows, usually unglazed, but sometimes, as at Gloucester, provided with ..."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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