such an arcade in 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.

(intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious. / (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not. / (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.

Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary. / Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence. / Naive, lacking in worldliness. / Furnished with cloisters.

simple past tense and past participle of cloister

plural of cloister

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cloister

present participle of cloister

Alternative form of cloistral

plural of cloisterer

One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.