What is the difference between cloister and monastery?
cloister | monastery |
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
# such arcade in a monastery
# such arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
(figuratively) The monastic life
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
To provide with (a) cloister(s).
To protect or isolate.
Place of residence for members of a religious community (especially monks).
As nouns the difference between cloister and monastery
is that cloister is a covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially while monastery is place of residence for members of a religious community (especially monks).As a verb cloister
is to become a Roman Catholic religious.cloister
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Alternative forms
* cloistre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cloistralVerb
(en verb)- ''The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it