cloister
Such an arcade in a monasteryA 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;
» The nuns went up to the cloister.
Meaning
4 sensesA 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;
Kreuzgang
клуа́трkluátr, кры́тая галере́яkrýtaja galeréja, кры́тая арка́даkrýtaja arkáda
клуа́трkluátr
residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
Such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
Kloster
монасты́рьmonastýrʹ
(figuratively)The monastic life.
Klosterleben, Klausur
Examples
5 sentencesThe nuns went up to the cloister.
What's the difference between a cloister and a church?
I'm not cloistering them.
Indeed monasticism was becoming popular, and the Merovingian period witnessed the foundation of numberless cloisters.
Mr. Pye crossed the nave, and quitted the cathedral by the cloister door, followed by the choristers.
Translations
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Origin
Recorded since about 1300 as Middle English cloistre, borrowed from Old French cloistre, cRecorded since about 1300 as Middle English cloistre, borrowed from Old French cloistre, clostre, or via Old English clauster, both from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”), a derivation of the past participle of claudere (“to close”). Doublet of claustrum.
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Forms
plural: cloistersSynonyms
1 synonyms- residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery):religious residence