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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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