2syllables
cloistered
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Definitions ofcloistered
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.
1adjective
- Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
- Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence
- Naive, lacking in worldliness
- Furnished with cloisters.
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