1. (religion) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
   "The monks paced silently through the peaceful cloister"
    
2. Residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
   "The nuns lived in a cloister secluded from the outside world";
   - religious residence

1. Seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
   "She cloistered herself in the office"
    
2. Surround with a cloister
   "cloister the garden"

Derived forms: cloistered, cloistering, cloisters

Type of: border, court, courtyard, environ, insulate, isolate, residence, ring, skirt, surround

Encyclopedia: Cloister