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Meaning:
Noun:
- A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- figurative The monastic life
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Verb:
- intransitive To become a Roman Catholic religious.
- intransitive To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- transitive To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- transitive To protect or isolate.
- transitive To provide with (a) cloister(s).
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