CLOISTERS | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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Word: Cloister

Speech Type: Noun

Etymology:

Middle English (in the sense ‘place of religious seclusion’): from Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum, clostrum ‘lock, enclosed place’, from claudere, ‘to close’

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: ˈklɔɪstə
Dialects: British English
Definition:

a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side

Short Definition:

covered walk in convent, monastery, college, or cathedral

Examples:
  • the shadowed cloisters of the convent

Word: Cloister

Speech Type: Verb

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: ˈklɔɪstə
Dialects: British English
Definition:

seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery

Short Definition:

seclude or shut up in convent or monastery

Examples:
  • the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate

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