Cloister1. (n.) An enclosed place.
2. (n.) A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
3. (n.) The series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
4. (n.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
5. (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
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