| anglais > français | |
| cloister | |
| 1. n. Cloître. | |
| 2. v. (Christianisme) Devenir religieux. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
| cloister | |
| 1. n. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially: |  |
| 2. n. such an arcade in a monastery; |  |
| 3. n. such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion. |  |
| 4. n. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion. |  |
| 5. n. (figuratively) The monastic life. |  |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious. |  |
| 7. v. To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not. |  |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things. |  |
| 9. v. To provide with a cloister or cloisters. |  |
| The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it. |  |
| 10. v. To protect or isolate. |  |
| français > anglais | |
| cloitre | |
| 1. n-m. fr-post-1990, cloître |  |