cloister
nounEtymology
Recorded since about 1300 as Middle English cloistre, borrowed from Old French cloistre, clostre, or via Old English clauster, both from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”), a derivation of the past participle of claudere (“to close”). Doublet of claustrum.
Definitions
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings…
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
The monastic life.
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To become a Roman Catholic religious.
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
- The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.
To protect or isolate.
- Unique condo cloistered on top of hill.
The neighborhood
- neighborclaustrum
- neighborclaustral
- neighborclaustrophobia
- neighborclaustration
- neighborabbey
- neighborhermitage
- neighbormonastery
- neighbornunnery
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cloister. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cloister. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at cloister
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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