2syllables
cloister
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Definitions ofcloister
1noun
- A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- The monastic life.
1verb
- To become a Roman Catholic religious.
- To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
Example: "The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it."
- To protect or isolate.
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