- CLOISTER Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
More than three centuries later, English speakers began using the verb cloister to mean “to seclude in or as if in a cloister ” Today, the noun can also refer to the monastic life or to a covered and usually arched passage along or around a court
- Cloister - Wikipedia
A cloister (from Latin claustrum 'enclosure') is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth
- Cloister | Monastic Life, Design History | Britannica
cloister, quadrilateral enclosure surrounded by covered walkways, and usually attached to a monastic or cathedral church and sometimes to a college
- CLOISTER Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
CLOISTER definition: a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard See examples of cloister used in a sentence
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Definition of cloister noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- CLOISTER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
ˈklɔɪ·stər Add to word list a covered passage around esp a square open space within a religious building, or the space such a passage goes around (Definition of cloister from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
- CLOISTER definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral The thirteenth-century cloisters are amongst the most beautiful in central Italy Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
- Cloister - definition of cloister by The Free Dictionary
1 To shut away from the world in or as if in a cloister; seclude 2 To furnish (a building) with a cloister
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