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