Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
An inclosed place.
- 2transitive verb
A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court
- 3transitive verb
the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
- 4transitive verb
A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
- 5transitive verb
To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
- 6noun
a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
- 7noun
residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
- 8verb
seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
"She cloistered herself in the office"
- 9verb
surround with a cloister
"cloister the garden"
- 10verb
surround with a cloister, as of a garden
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