Thesaurus: cloister

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1. v. t. An inclosed place.
2. v. t. A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
3. v. t. the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
4. v. t. A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
5. v. t. To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
6. n. residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
7. n. a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
8. v. surround with a cloister, as of a garden
9. v. surround with a cloister
10. v. seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
11. To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world;to immure.None among them are throught worthy to be styled religious personsbut those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. Sharp.