cloister

Meanings

1. 1
   noun A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
2. 2
   noun A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
3. 3
   noun The monastic life.
4. 4
   verb To become a Roman Catholic religious.
5. 5
   verb To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
6. 6
   verb To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
7. 7
   verb To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
8. 8
   verb To protect or isolate.