Cloister Synonyms

kloistər
A place of religious seclusion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. convent
  2. abbey
  3. monastery
  4. nunnery
  5. priory
  6. friary
  7. hermitage
  8. sanctuary
  9. cenoby
  10. order
  11. retreat
  12. lamasery
  13. charterhouse
  14. aisle
  15. chapter-house
  16. ambulatory
  17. house
  18. arcade
  19. enclosure
  20. cell(s)
  21. religious residence
  22. hall
  23. retreat from the world
  24. isolation
  25. cloistered walls
  26. religious community
  27. monastic
  28. ashram
  29. passageway
  30. quarantine
  31. priorate
  32. seclude
  33. sequester
  34. sequestration
  35. shelter
  36. stoa
  37. veil
To put into solitude
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. seclude
  2. sequester
  3. sequestrate
A covered walk
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ambulatory
  2. arcade
  3. gallery

Words Related to Cloister

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Cloister Sentence Examples

  • The cloister and monastic buildings lie to the south side of the church.

  • He was defeated, blinded and sent back to die in the cloister of Sahagun.

  • On the western side of the cloister is another two-story building (N).

  • The final judgment found no proof of heresy, but compelled him to abjure sixteen errors, rather extorted than extracted from his writings, suspended him from his see for five years, and secluded him to the Dominican cloister of Sta Maria sopra Minerva.

  • The other half he spent in "Bogucharovo Cloister," as his father called Prince Andrew's estate.

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