cloister

noun · verbB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

cloisterscloistre

1.
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
2.
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
3.
(figuratively)The monastic life.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

cloisters

V_ing/Gerund

cloistering

V_ed/pp

cloisteredcloistre

1.
(intransitive)To become a Roman Catholic religious.
2.
(transitive)To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
3.
(intransitive)To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
4.
(transitive)To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.
5.
(transitive)To protect or isolate.

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Đồng nghĩa

enter religion(become a Catholic religious) enter religion

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro Recorded since about 1300 as Middle English cloistre, borrowed from Old French cloistre, clostre, or via Old English clauster, both from claustrum (portion of monastery closed off to laity), from Latin claustrum (place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure), a derivation of the past participle of claudere (to close). claustrum.