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   cloister

   /ˈklɔɪstə/

   noun

   • 1. a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side: "the shadowed cloisters of the convent" Similar walkwaycovered walkcorridoraislearcadeloggiagallerypiazzatechnical:colonnadeambulatorystoa
   • ▪ a convent or monastery. Similar abbeymonasteryfriaryconventpriorynunneryreligious housereligious communityhistorical:charterhouserare:cenobiumcenoby
   • ▪ monastic life: "he was inclined more to the cloister than the sword"

   verb

   • 1. seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery: "the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘place of religious seclusion’): from Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum, clostrum ‘lock, enclosed place’, from claudere, ‘to close’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. cloistral adjective

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