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- 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 | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
CLOISTER definition: 1 a covered stone passage around the four sides of a courtyard (= a square or rectangular space… Learn more
- cloister noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of cloister noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary [countable, usually plural] a covered passage with arches around a square garden, usually forming part of a cathedral, convent or monastery The 12th century church and cloisters remain surprisingly intact
- cloister - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
cloister (third-person singular simple present cloisters, present participle cloistering, simple past and past participle cloistered) (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious
- 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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