The meaning of Cloistering

Cloistering – definition

verb
Seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.
Usage examples:
The monastery was where the brothers would cloister themselves to meditate
Synonims:
Confine Isolate Shut away Sequester Seclude Closet

noun
A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.
Usage examples:
The shadowed cloisters of the convent

Cloistering translation into English

Cloistering: translate from English into Chinese

修道, 寺院

Cloistering: translate from English into Dutch

Kloostergang, Afzonderen, Kloosteren

Cloistering: translate from English into French

Cloître

Cloistering: translate from English into German

Klausur

Cloistering: translate from English into Hindi

मठवास, समाज से दूर रहना, मठ में बांध देना

Cloistering: translate from English into Italian

Clausura

Cloistering: translate from English into Korean

회랑, 수도원에 가두다, 들어박히다

Cloistering: translate from English into Russian

Замкнутость, Заточать в монастырь, Уединяться

Cloistering: translate from English into Spanish

Enclaustramiento, Enclaustrar, Realizar claustro

Word origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘place of religious seclusion’): from Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum, clostrum ‘lock, enclosed place’, from claudere, ‘to close’.

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Cloistering – similar words

cloisterer

noun
A person who lives in a cloister; a monk or nun.
Usage examples:
The general prologue portrait calls attention to huberd's grand and dignified appearance, so unlike…

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cloistered

adjective
Enclosed by or having a cloister.
Usage examples:
A cloistered walkway

verb
Seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.
Usage examples:
The monastery was where the brothers would cloister themselves to meditate

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cloister

noun
A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.
Usage examples:
The shadowed cloisters of the convent

verb
Seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.
Usage examples:
The monastery was where the brothers would cloister themselves to meditate

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Cloistering synonims

closet

noun
A tall cupboard or wardrobe with a door, used for storage.
Usage examples:
He has a closet full of designer suits

adjective
Secret; covert.
Usage examples:
A closet smoker

verb
Shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study.
Usage examples:
He was closeted with the king

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confine

verb
Keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time).
Usage examples:
He does not confine his message to high politics

noun
The borders or boundaries of a place, especially with regard to their restricting freedom of movement.
Usage examples:
Within the confines of the hall escape was difficult

verb
To keep someone or something within limits
Usage examples:
The animals were confined in a large pen., harris does not confine her stage work to broadway., can…

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isolate

verb
Cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others.
Usage examples:
A country which is isolated from the rest of the world

noun
A person or thing that has been or become isolated.
Usage examples:
Social isolates often become careless of their own welfare

verb
Place or set apart

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seclude

verb
Keep (someone) away from other people.
Usage examples:
I secluded myself up here for a life of study and meditation

verb
To keep someone or something away from other people or things
Usage examples:
Typically, the bride would seclude herself in another room.

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sequester

verb
Isolate or hide away.
Usage examples:
She is sequestered in deepest dorset

noun
Another term for sequestrate.
Usage examples:
Their property was sequestered by parliament

verb
To keep the people on a jury (= group deciding a legal case) separate from everyone else, even from their families, while deciding a case
Usage examples:
The judge refused to have the jury sequestered.

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shut away

phrasal verb
Keep someone or something inside a place so as not to be seen or contacted by other people.
Usage examples:
Annabelle was shut away in the library for most of the day with a pile of books

phrasal verb
To put a person in a place that they are not allowed or able to leave
Usage examples:
He was ten years old when he was shut away for stealing an apple., the diamonds are shut away in a …

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