Definitions for CLOISTER
ˈklɔɪ stərclois·ter

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. religious residence, cloisternoun

   residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)

2. cloisterverb

   a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)

3. cloisterverb

   surround with a cloister, as of a garden

4. cloisterverb

   surround with a cloister

   "cloister the garden"

5. cloisterverb

   seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister

   "She cloistered herself in the office"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cloisternoun

   A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:

2. cloisternoun

   A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.

3. cloisternoun

   The monastic life

4. cloisterverb

   To become a Roman Catholic religious.

5. cloisterverb

   To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.

6. cloisterverb

   To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.

7. cloisterverb

   To provide with (a) cloister(s).

   The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it

8. cloisterverb

   To protect or isolate.

9. Etymology: Recorded since c.1300, directly from cloistre, clostre or via clauster, both from Medieval Latin claustrum "portion of monastery closed off to laity," from claustrum, "place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure", a noun use of the past participle (neutral inflection) of claudere ‘to close’.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CLOISTERnoun

   Etymology: clâs, Welsh; clauster, Sax. closter, Germ. klooster, Dut. claustro, Ital. cloistre, Fr. claustrum, Lat.

   1. A religious retirement; a monastery; a nunnery.

   Nor in a secret cloister doth he keep
   These virgin spirits, until their marriage-day. Davies.

   Some solitary cloister will I choose,
   And there with holy virgins live immur’d. John Dryden, Sp. Fryar.

   How could he have the leisure and retiredness of the cloister, to perform those acts of devotion. Francis Atterbury.

   2. A peristile; a piazza.

2. To Cloisterverb

   To shut up in a religious house; to confine; to immure; to shut up from the world.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Cloister thee in some religious house. William Shakespeare, Rich. II.

   They have by commandment, though in form of courtesy, cloistered us within these walls for three days. Francis Bacon.

   It was of the king’s first acts to cloister the queen dowager in the nunnery of Bermondsey. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   Nature affords plenty of beauties, that no man need complain if the deformed are cloistered up. Thomas Rymer, Tragedies.

   The gloom of cloister’d monks. James Thomson, Summer.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cloister

   A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a warm southern flank, usually indicates that it is (or once was) part of a monastic foundation, "forming a continuous and solid architectural barrier... that effectively separates the world of the monks from that of the serfs and workmen, whose lives and works went forward outside and around the cloister."Cloistered (or claustral) life is also another name for the monastic life of a monk or nun. The English term enclosure is used in contemporary Catholic church law translations to mean cloistered, and some form of the Latin parent word "claustrum" is frequently used as a metonymic name for monastery in languages such as German.

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1. cloister

   A cloister is a covered walkway or corridor, often with a wall on one side and a colonnade on the other, typically located in religious institutions such as a church, monastery or convent. It often encloses a courtyard or garden and is meant to be a place of quiet reflection and meditation. Alternatively, 'cloister' can refer to a monastic life of religious seclusion.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cloisterverb

   an inclosed place

2. Cloisterverb

   a covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;

3. Cloisterverb

   the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college

4. Cloisterverb

   a monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties

5. Cloisterverb

   to confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cloister

   A cloister is a rectangular open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries, with open arcades on the inner side, running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a warm southern flank, usually indicates that it is part of a monastic foundation, "forming a continuous and solid architectural barrier... that effectively separates the world of the monks from that of the serfs and workmen, whose lives and works went on outside and around the cloister." Cloistered life is also another name for the life of a monk or nun in the enclosed religious orders; the modern English term enclosure is used in contemporary Catholic church law to mean cloistered, and cloister is sometimes used as a metonymic synonym for monastery. Historically, the early medieval cloister had several antecedents, the peristyle court of the Greco-Roman domus, the atrium and its expanded version that served as forecourt to early Christian basilicas, and certain semi-galleried courts attached to the flanks of early Syrian churches. Walter Horn suggests that the earliest coenobitic communities, which were established in Egypt by Saint Pachomius, did not result in cloister construction, as there were no lay serfs attached to the community of monks, thus no separation within the walled community was required; Horn finds the earliest prototypical cloisters in some exceptional late fifth-century monastic churches in southern Syria, such as the Convent of Saints Sergios and Bacchos, at Umm-is-Surab, and the colonnaded forecourt of the convent of Id-Dêr, but nothing similar appeared in the semieremitic Irish monasteries' clustered roundhouses nor in the earliest Benedictine collective communities of the West.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cloister

   klois′tėr, n. a covered arcade forming part of a monastic or collegiate establishment: a place of religious retirement, a monastery or nunnery: an enclosed place.—v.t. to confine in a cloister: to confine within walls.—adjs. Clois′teral, Clois′tral, Claus′tral, pertaining or confined to a cloister: secluded; Clois′tered, dwelling in cloisters.—ns. Clois′terer, one belonging to a cloister; Clois′ter-garth, the court or yard enclosed by a cloister; Clois′tress (Shak.), a nun.—The cloister, the monastic life. [O. Fr. cloistre (A.S. clauster)—L. claustrum—claudĕre, clausum, to shut.]

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1. cloistre

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3. cortiles

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CLOISTER in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CLOISTER in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CLOISTER
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cloister
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CLOISTER
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloister
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CLOISTER
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=CLOISTER
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=CLOISTER