Definition: Cloister (Meaning of Cloister)

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Cloister ¹

Definition: An inclosed place.

Definition: A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;

Definition: the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.

Definition: A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.

Definition: To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.

Definition: a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)

Definition: residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)

Definition: seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office"

Definition: surround with a cloister, as of a garden