Passageway vs Cloister - What's the difference?
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A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
Any way for passing in, out or through something.
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.
Passageway is a related term of cloister.
As nouns the difference between passageway and cloister
is that passageway is a covered walkway, between rooms or buildings 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 a verb cloister is
to become a roman catholic religious.passageway
English
Noun
(en noun)- The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway . David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
cloister
English
Alternative forms
* cloistre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cloistralVerb
(en verb)- ''The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it
