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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▸ 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.
▸ Also see cloister
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