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n. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle.

n. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.

n. Life in a monastery or convent.

n. A secluded, quiet place.

v. To shut away from the world in or as if in a cloister; seclude.

v. To furnish (a building) with a cloister.

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

n. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.

n. The monastic life

v. To become a Roman Catholic religious.

v. To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.

v. To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.

v. To provide with (a) cloister(s).

v. To protect or isolate.

n. An inclosed place.

n. A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court

n. A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.

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

n. An inclosure.

n. An arched way or a covered walk running round the walls of certain portions of monastic and collegiate buildings.

n. Hence A place of religious retirement; a monastery; a convent; a nunnery; a religious house.

n. Any arcade or colonnade round an open court.

To confine in a cloister or convent.

To shut up; confine closely within walls; immure; shut up in retirement from the world.

v. surround with a cloister

n. residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)

v. seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister

n. a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)

v. surround with a cloister, as of a garden

"IV. iii.280 (107,1) [He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister] I know not that _cloister_, though it may etymologically signify _any_"

cloistered    cloistering    cloisters   

skirt    ring    environ    surround    border    insulate    isolate    court    courtyard   

monastery    hermitage    nunnery    abbey   

claustration   

cloistered    cloistering    cloistral    cloisterer   

convent    priory    monastery    nunnery    abbey    immure    arcade    enter religion   

foister    oyster    roister    royster   

monastery    chapel    courtyard    nave    abbey    gateway    refectory    portico    aisle    palace