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Cloister

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounA covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially: such an arcade in a monastery; such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
2.Nounsuch an arcade in a monastery;
3.Nounsuch an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
4.NounA place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
5.NounThe monastic life.
6.VerbTo become a Roman Catholic religious.
7.VerbTo confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
8.VerbTo deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
9.VerbTo provide with a cloister or cloisters.
"The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it."
10.VerbTo protect or isolate.
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