cloisters
Meaning of cloisters
- a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.
the shadowed cloisters of the convent
- seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.
the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate
Middle English (in the sense ‘place of religious seclusion’): from Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum, clostrum ‘lock, enclosed place’, from claudere, ‘to close’.
Information about cloisters
- The singular form of cloisters is: cloister.
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Hyphenation of cloisters
clois-ters
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- cloisters is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
cloisters synonyms
Meaning a passage or path for walking along, especially a raised passageway connecting different sections of a building or a wide path in a park or garden:
Meaning a long passage in a building from which doors lead into rooms:
Meaning a passage between rows of seats in a building such as a church or theatre, an aircraft, or train:
Meaning a covered passage with arches along one or both sides:
Meaning a gallery or room with one or more open sides, especially one that forms part of a house and has one side open to the garden:
Meaning a room or building for the display or sale of works of art:
Meaning a public square or marketplace, especially in an Italian town:
Meaning a row of evenly spaced columns supporting a roof, an entablature, or arches:
Meaning a place for walking, especially an aisle or cloister in a church or monastery:
Meaning a classical portico or roofed colonnade:
Meaning keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time):
Meaning cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others:
Meaning isolate or hide away:
Meaning keep (someone) away from other people:
Meaning shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study:
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