vt an inclosed place.
2. cloister ·vt a covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;.
3. cloister ·vt a monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
4. cloister ·vt to confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
5. cloister ·vt the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, ·esp. that of a monastery or a college.