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1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle: "The royal family lived for generations in a cloister and enjoyed their enclosed gardens that are surrounded by covered walkways."
2. A place; especially, a monastery or a convent that is devoted to religious seclusion: "She spent most of her life in a cloister as a nun."
2. A place; especially, a monastery or a convent that is devoted to religious seclusion: "She spent most of her life in a cloister as a nun."
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cloister (verb), cloisters; cloistered; cloistering
1. To surround with a cloister, as of a garden: "The family moved to a new residence that was cloistered with beautiful gardens."
2. To seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister: "Just about every working day, she was cloistering herself in her office because she had so much work to do."
2. To seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister: "Just about every working day, she was cloistering herself in her office because she had so much work to do."
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cloister, closure, cloture,
cloister (KLOI stuhr) (noun)
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion: After her husband was killed, Roxanna chose to live in a cloister with the nuns.
closure (KLOH zhuhr) (noun)
1. A feeling of finality or resolution; especially, after a traumatic experience: Geneva decided to visit the scene of the accident again in an attempt to bring closure to her grief.
2. A bringing to an end; a conclusion: The speaker announced that after one more question, he would bring closure to the meeting.
2. A bringing to an end; a conclusion: The speaker announced that after one more question, he would bring closure to the meeting.
cloture (KLOH chuhr) (noun)
A parliamentary procedure by which debate is ended and an immediate vote is taken on the matter under discussion: The senator rose to present a motion of cloture, thus bringing the discussion to a vote.
The motion of cloture was approved and the next item of business for the council was the closure of a city landmark which was a former cloister built in the previous century.
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(Latin: a hall; a vestibule; a lobby; monastic cloister, of Germanic origin)