CLOISTER

I. noun see: close Date: 13th century 1. a monastic establishment, an area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are normally restricted, monastic life, a place or state of seclusion, a covered passage on the side of a court usually having one side walled and the other an open arcade or colonnade, II. transitive verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: 1581 to seclude from the world in or as if in a ~ , to surround with a ~