cloister
/ˈklɔɪstər/
noun
- A covered walkway, often with an open arcade on one side, typically found in monasteries, convents, or college buildings.
- Students often study in the shady cloister of the old college.
- The cloister was decorated with ancient stone carvings.
- The monks walked silently through the cloister on their way to prayer.
- A place of religious seclusion, such as a monastery or convent.
- She decided to enter the cloister and become a nun.
- The cloister offered peace away from the busy world.
- He spent a year living in a cloister in the mountains.
verb
- To seclude or confine someone, especially in a religious or quiet place away from the outside world.
- They cloistered the new members during their training period.
- He felt cloistered by the strict rules of the boarding school.
- The writer cloistered herself in a cabin to finish her novel.
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