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Friary vs Cloister - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between friary and cloister

is that friary is house or dwelling where friars or members of certain religious communities live while cloister is a covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially.

As an adjective friary

is like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent.

As a verb cloister is

to become a Roman Catholic religious.

friary

English

Noun

(friaries)
  • house or dwelling where friars or members of certain religious communities live
  • See also

    * convent * monastery

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent.
  • (Camden)

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    cloister

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cloistre (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • Derived terms

    * cloistral

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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).
  • ''The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it
  • To protect or isolate.
  • Synonyms

    * (become a Catholic religious) enter religion

    Derived terms

    * cloistered * cloisterer

    See also

    * abbey * hermitage * monastery * nunnery

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