cloister

cloister
n
1. covered walk, ambulatory, promenade, walkway, corridor; arcade, colonnade, gallery, piazza, archway; courtyard, quadrangle; portico, porch, stoa, U.S. veranda.
2. monastery, abbey, priory, friary, convent, nunnery, cenoby; novitiate, enclosure; cubicle, cell, closet, stall, carrel.
3. refuge, asylum, retreat, hermitage, haven, shelter, resort, sanctuary, sanctum sanctorum, (in ancient worship) adytum; ark, covert, hideaway, mew, arbor, bower; den, study, library, ivory tower.
4. religious life, Inf. religion, the contemplative life, monasticism, monachism, sisterhood, nunhood, convent, monastery.
v
5. confine, shut up, immure, wall in, Inf. hole up, incarcerate, imprison; embower, coop up, pen in, fence in, hedge in, restrict, limit, enclose, closet.
6. seclude, set apart, isolate, separate, segregate, sequester, hide, conceal, shelter; retire, withdraw, hibernate.

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  • cloister — [klois′tər] n. [ME < OFr cloistre & OE clauster, both < ML(Ec) claustrum, portion of monastery closed off to the laity < L, a bolt, place shut in < pp. of claudere, to CLOSE2] 1. a place of religious seclusion: monastery or convent 2 …   English World dictionary

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  • Cloister — Clois ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cloistered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cloistering}.] To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure. [1913 Webster] None among them are thought worthy to be styled religious persons but those… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cloister — ► NOUN 1) a covered, and typically colonnaded, passage round an open court in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral. 2) (the cloister) the secluded life of a monk or nun. ► VERB ▪ seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery. DERIVATIVES… …   English terms dictionary

  • cloister — index circumscribe (surround by boundary), envelop, restrict, sequester (seclude), shut Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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  • cloister — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. abbey, priory, convent, hermitage, monastery; retreat, sanctuary; arcade, colonnade. See seclusion, abode, temple. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A place of religious seclusion] Syn. monastery, convent, abbey …   English dictionary for students

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