Usually means: Secluded spaces for religious contemplation.
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  1. cloisters: Merriam-Webster
  2. cloisters: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cloisters: Vocabulary.com
  4. Cloisters, cloister's, cloisters: Wordnik
  5. cloisters: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cloisters: Wiktionary
  7. cloisters: Dictionary.com
  8. cloisters: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Cloisters, The Cloisters (Letchworth), The Cloisters (disambiguation), The Cloisters: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. cloisters: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cloisters: Encyclopedia

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  1. cloisters: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cloister)

noun:  A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
noun:  such an arcade in a monastery;
noun:  such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
noun:  A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
noun:  (figuratively) The monastic life.
verb:  (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
verb:  (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
verb:  (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
verb:  (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
verb:  (transitive) To protect or isolate.
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