cloister
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially
Other meanings
such an arcade in a monastery
such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
A kind of
- residence
Kinds of cloister
- monastery
Related words
- cloisteress
- cloisterism
- cloisterly
- incloister
- cloisterer
- cloisterless
- cloisterlike
- cloister vault
- cloistral
- cloistress
- encloister
Word history
From Latin "claustrum" (place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cloister” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.