Cloister

Noun

 * 1) A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
 * 2) such arcade in a monastery
 * 3) such arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion
 * 4) A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
 * 5)  The monastic life

Verb

 * 1)  To become a Roman Catholic religious.
 * 2)  To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
 * 3)  To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
 * 4)  To provide with (a) cloister(s).
 * ''The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it
 * 1)  To protect or isolate.

Adjectives for Cloister
shady; open; solemn; personal; dilapidated; mournful; monkish; restful; beautiful.

Synonyms for Cloister

 * (become a Catholic religious) enter religion

Derived terms

 * cloistral
 * cloistered
 * cloisterer

Thesaurus
keep in custody, keep in detention, lair, lamasery, lane, loggia, mew, mew up, monastery, nave, nunnery, opening, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, pen, pen up, pergola, peristyle, porch, portico, pound, presbytery, priorate, priory, privacy, rail in, railroad tunnel, recess, restrain, restrict, retreat, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, seal up, secret place, shackle, shut in, shut up, straiten, traject, trajet, transept, triforium, tunnel, underpass, vestry, wall in, access, adytum, aisle, alley, ambry, ambulatory, aperture, apse, arcade, areaway, artery, ashram, avenue, baptistery, blindstory, bottle up, box in, box up, breezeway, cabin, cage, casket, cell, chancel, channel, check, choir, cloisters, closet, coffin, colonnade, communication, conduit, confessional, confessionary, confine, connection, constrain, convent, coop, coop in, coop up, cork up, corridor, covered way, cramp, crib, crypt, defile, den, detain, diaconicon, diaconicum, encage, encase, enclose, entomb, exit, fence in, ferry, ford, friary, gallery, hall, hallway, hem in, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, holy of holies, house, immure, impound, inhibit, inlet, interchange, intersection, ivory tower, junction, keep in,

Etymology
recorded since c.1300, directly from cloistre, clostre or via  clauster, both from Medieval Latin claustrum "portion of monastery closed off to laity," from  claustrum, "place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure", a noun use of the past participle (neutral inflection) of claudere ‘to close’.

Noun

 * Bulgarian: покрита аркада
 * Catalan: claustre
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (huíláng)
 * Dutch: kloostergang, kruisgang
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: kerengő


 * Italian: chiostro
 * Japanese: 回廊
 * Russian: крытая галерея (krýtaja gal'er'éja), крытая аркада (krýtaja arkáda)
 * Serbo-Croatian: klaustar
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (xiūdàoyuàn)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
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 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Serbo-Croatian: manastir, samostan
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: kloosterleven


 * Serbo-Croatian: monaštvo, klauzura

Verb

 * Dutch: in het klooster treden

Anagrams

 * coistrel
 * cortiles
 * costlier