cloister

  1. Noun.  A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:.
  2. Noun.  A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
  3. Noun.  (figuratively) The monastic life.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) To provide with (a) cloister(s).
  8. Verb.  (transitive) To protect or isolate.

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