cloister
IPA: kɫˈɔɪstɝ
noun
- A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
- such an arcade in a monastery;
- such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- (figuratively) The monastic life.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "cloister" in Sentences
- The cloister here is the monastery.
- The cloister is to the south of the choir.
- Information is inserted in Cloistered rule.
- The cloisters and pharmacy are open to the public.
- The convent is cloistered and not open to visitors.
- Most of the monastic buildings surround the cloister.
- At the center of the quadrangle is the Cloister Garden.
- Females are cloistered and remain in the Trolloc camps.
- The cloister and monastic buildings lie to the south side of the church.
- The abbey cloister is a place of tranquillity, planted with fragrant herbs.