Friary vs Cloister - What's the difference?
friary | cloister | Related terms |
house or dwelling where friars or members of certain religious communities live
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.
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
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(friaries)See also
* convent * monasteryAnagrams
*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