cloistered

Definitions

1. 1

   Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters

   Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.

   • Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.
   • In cloister'd state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.
2. 2

   Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.

   • […]“The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes.
3. 3

   Naive, lacking in worldliness.

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   1. 4

      Furnished with cloisters.

      • both the Greeks and Romans […]had commonly two cloiſtered open Courts, one serving for the Womens ſide, and the other for the Men
   2. 5

      simple past and past participle of cloister

The neighborhood