What does cloistered mean?

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ˈklɔɪ stərdclois·tered

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monasticaladjective

    of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows

  2. cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequesteredadjective

    providing privacy or seclusion

    "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"

Wiktionary

  1. cloisteredadjective

    Pertaining to one who lives in a cloister or a cloister-like environment, or who was raised that way.

  2. cloisteredadjective

    Pertaining to isolation, protection, being hidden way for the sake of maintaining innocence; naive, lacking in worldliness.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Cloisteredparticipial adj.

    Etymology: from cloister.

    Ere the bat hath flown
    His cloister’d flight, there shall be done
    A deed of dreadful note. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    The Greeks and Romans had commonly two cloistered open courts, one serving for the women’s side, and the other for the men. Henry Wotton, Architecture.

Wikipedia

  1. cloistered

    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.

ChatGPT

  1. cloistered

    Cloistered generally refers to being secluded or shut off from the rest of the world, often in the context of religious or contemplative lifestyle. It can also refer to a place, such as a monastery or convent, where individuals lead a life of seclusion. The term originates from the architectural term "cloister," which is a covered walkway in monastic or religious institutions symbolizing seclusion from the outside world.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cloistered

    of Cloister

  2. Cloisteredadjective

    dwelling in cloisters; solitary

  3. Cloisteredadjective

    furnished with cloisters

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cloistered in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cloistered in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of cloistered in a Sentence

  1. Jerry Weintraub:

    He was completely aware of the level of fame because that's what destroyed him. He was cloistered, he was locked up all the time, he couldn't go out to a restaurant unless we closed the restaurant, he couldn't go to a movie unless we closed the theater ... it's a very hard way to live. Listen: He gave up his freedom knowingly because he was such a huge star.

  2. Fox News:

    You hope that, even with the delays we're seeing, the older children, some of the extreme emotional problems, that there will be a way through that, but, that's why it's really just horrific what we've put young people through, and all these … I think a lot of the people that are making the decisions are protected from it. They were wealthy enough, or cloistered enough that they didn't feel the ramifications. And particularly when we're talking about poor children who don't have resources at home, it just breaks my heart to think about what we put them through.

  3. Aimee Bahng:

    Even though we might be sort of cloistered away in the ivory tower or something, we felt very much moved by, incited by, inspired by a lot of the activists' work following the failure to indict Darren Wilson after the events in Ferguson, we wanted to not leave this behind after winter break.

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