cloisters
noun
- 1
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
- 2
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- 3
The monastic life.
verb
- 1
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
- 2
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- 3
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- 4
To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
“The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.”
- 5
To protect or isolate.
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