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