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cloister
 
Noun cloister has 2 senses
  1. religious residence, cloister - residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
    --1 is a kind of residence
    --1 has particulars: convent; monastery; priory
    Derived form: verb cloister2
  2. cloister - a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
    --2 is a kind of     court, courtyard
    Derived form: verb cloister1
Verb cloister has 2 senses
  1. cloister - surround with a cloister, as of a garden
    --1 is one way to     surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring
    Derived form: noun cloister2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. cloister - seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office"
    --2 is one way to     isolate, insulate
    Derived form: noun cloister1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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