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Definition: Cloister |
CloisterNoun1. Residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery). 2. A courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions). Verb1. Surround with a cloister, as of a garden. 2. Seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cloister" was first used: sometime in the early 13th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a cloister, omens dissatisfaction with present surroundings, and you will soon seek new environments. For a young woman to dream of a cloister, foretells that her life will be made unselfish by the chastening of sorrow. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Cloister He retired into a cloister, a monastery. Almost all monasteries have a cloister or covered walk, which generally occupied three sides of a quadrangle. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Cloister is part of Cathedral's architecture, (usually) four corridors, with a courtyard or quad in the middle. Cloisteral life is another name for the life of a monk or nun.This is a stub. Well-known cathedral cloisters could be added.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cloister."
Synonym: CloisterSynonym: religious residence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market place, place, plaza. |
Restraint | Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes. |
Temple | Monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cloister |
| English words defined with "cloister": Alien priory ♦ Cloister garth, Cloisterer, Cloistering ♦ Encloister ♦ Garth ♦ Incloister ♦ monastic, monk ♦ Uncloister. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cloister": Beguins ♦ Hubert ♦ Long Meg of Westminster ♦ Minories ♦ Tyropoeon Valley. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cloister": Cloistral. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cloister" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (cloister). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Cloister and the Hearth (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Monks cells and cloister. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | U. S. Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : North cloister. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Cloister court in the snow. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Cloister, Glenwood Mission Inn, Riverside, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cloister Hotel, Sea Island, Georgia. Blue club room. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Cloister and Church Spike" by C.H. So Commentary: "School Cloister and Church Spike under the grey dark sky." | "Cloister in Colmar, France" by Liam Heffernan Commentary: "Cloister in Colmar, France." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The cloister, the cloister as there beheld, was the intersecting point of multiplied horrors |
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| "Cloister" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.55% of the time. "Cloister" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.55% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 4.3% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.15% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cloister": Cloister garth ♦ cloister vault. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "cloister": cloister-like, cloister-pump. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cloister"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vendi i qetë, mbyll në manastir, manastir (convent, monastery), hajat me shtylla. (various references) | |
Arabic | حياة الأديرة, دير (abb, abbacy, abbess, abbey, convent, hermitage, monastery, priory). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | монашески живот, манастир (abbey, convent, house, monastery), изпращам в манастир. (various references) | |
Chinese | 寺院 . (various references) | |
Czech | klášter (convent, monastery). (various references) | |
Farsi | گوشه نشینی کردن , صومعه (Abbey, Convent, Monastery), ایوان (Balcony, Patio, Porch, Portal, Portico), اطاق یاسلول راهبان وتارکان دنیا, راهروسرپوشیده , دیر (Abbey, Convent, Late, Long, Monastery, Tardy), درصومعه گذاشتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | ristikäytävä (cross-aisle), luostarinpiha. (various references) | |
French | cloître, mener une vie monacale. (various references) | |
German | kreuzgang. (various references) | |
Greek | κλείνομαι σε μοναστήρι, μονάζω (live as a monk), μοναστήριο (abbey, monastery), μοναστήρι (abbey, monastery, priory). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מנזר (abbey, convent, monastery, priory), גדרת (claustrum). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kolostor (abbey, convent, monastery). (various references) | |
Indonesian | beranda (quarterdeck, veranda). (various references) | |
Italian | convento (convent, monastery), chiostro. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 修道院 (abbey, convent, monastery). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうどういん (abbey, convent, monastery). (various references) | |
Manx | paal vannishter, mannishter (abbey, friary, minster, monastery, religious house), cur ayns mannishter. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oisterclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | convento (convent, hermitage, monastery, monkery), claustro (ambulatory), mosteiro (friary, monastery, monkery), enclausurar (enclose, immure, inclose, mew). (various references) | |
Romanian | claustra (enter a monastery), sihãstrie (anchoretism, Hermitage, reclusory), mãnãstire (abbey, convent, monastery, monkery, nunnery), izolare (apartness, closeness, insulation, isolating, isolation, loneliness, offishness, privacy, retiredness, retirement, retiring, seclusion, secrecy), arcadã (arcade, archway, bay), închide într-o mãnãstire. (various references) | |
Russian | уединять монастырь, крытая аркада (ambulatories, slype), монастырь (abbey, convent, monastery, monkery, priory), заточать в монастырь. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zatvoriti (close, close down, closeout, coop, impound, incarcerate, lock into, occlude, put into, shut down, shut in, shut off), pokrivena arkada, manastir (convent, monastery, nunnery, priory). (various references) | |
Spanish | enclaustrar (box in, hide away), claustro. (various references) | |
Swedish | pelargång (arcade, colonnade, peristyle), kloster (abbatial, abbey, convent, monastery). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่อยู่ทางศาสนา (เช่น วัด). (various references) | |
Turkish | manastıra kapatmak, manastır (abbey, convent, friary, monastery, priory), kemerli yol (ambulatory, archway), kapanmak (be closed, be shut, be suspended, cicatrize, close down, close up, fold, fold up, go into liquidation, hole, hole up, overcast, overcloud, scar over, shut, shut to), kapalı geçit, inzivaya çekilmek (live in seclusion, retire, retreat, seclude oneself, sequester oneself), dehliz (corridor, gallery, passage, vestibule, vista). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | усамітнюватися (seclude, sequester oneself), крита аркада (ambulatory), галерея (gallery, walk), монастир (abbey, cell, monastery, monkery), заслати в монастир, бути на самоті. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tu viện (monastery, priory), nhà tu hành lang. (various references) | |
Welsh | clas (college, monastic community). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | claustra, claustrum. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | claustrum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cloister": cloistered, cloistering, cloisters. (additional references) | |
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"Cloister" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alaister, clauster, clister, clloster, cloiste, cloistr, cloistre, cloiter, clositer, clouster, Cloyster, coister, Kleiser, kloister, Kloster, Mcleister. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cloister" (pronounced kloy"ster) |
| 4 | -oy" s t er | oyster, roister, royster. |
| 3 | -s t er | dumpster, duster, Easter, adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, rooster, roster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: coistrel, costlier. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: citoles, coilers, colters, corslet, costrel, erotics, estriol, lectors, lictors, loiters, recoils, relicts, toilers. | |
-2 letters: ceorls, cestoi, citers, citole, closer, closet, coiler, colies, colter, corset, cosier, coster, cresol, erotic, escort, lector, lictor, lister, liters, litres, loiter, lories, oilers, oriels, ostler, recoil, rectos, relics, relict, relist, reoils, scoter, sector, slicer, sortie, stelic, steric, sterol. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: chlorites, cloisters, clothiers, coistrels, cryolites, elicitors, loricates, sclerotia, sclerotic, sclerotin, sectorial. | |
+2 letters: allosteric, cabriolets, centrioles, chrysolite, chrysotile, clitorides, clitorises, cloistered, cloistress, coprolites, courtliest, fortalices, interlocks, locutories, relictions, sclerotial, sclerotics, sclerotins, sclerotium, splotchier, stockpiler. | |
+3 letters: aeroelastic, bootlickers, ceilometers, chlorinates, cholesteric, chrysolites, chrysotiles, citronellas, clinometers, cliometrics, clofibrates, cloistering, courtliness, elastomeric, electronics, elucidators, explicators, hectoliters, helicopters, intercostal, interschool, isoelectric, lacerations, lactiferous, melioristic, meroblastic, microliters, multicourse, multisource, necrologist, obstetrical, ostrichlike, plyometrics, politickers, pratincoles, prelections, projectiles, protostelic, reelections, reflections, relocations, replicators, sclerotized, spirochetal, stockpilers, terricolous, tricolettes, ulcerations, uricotelism, vorticellas. | |
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