cloister

cloister is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An inclosed place. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. An inclosed place.
2. transitive verb. A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court
3. transitive verb. the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
4. transitive verb. A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
5. transitive verb. To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
6. noun. a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
7. noun. residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
8. verb. seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister

   "She cloistered herself in the office"

9. verb. surround with a cloister

   "cloister the garden"

10. verb. surround with a cloister, as of a garden

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cloister:

citolers, coistrel, costlier

Common word forms

cloisters, cloisteral, cloistered, cloisterer, cloisterly, cloistering, cloisterless

Words from these letters

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