A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle.
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
Life in a monastery or convent.
A secluded, quiet place.
tr.v.
clois·tered, clois·ter·ing, clois·ters
To shut away from the world in or as if in a cloister; seclude.
To furnish (a building) with a cloister.
[Middle English cloistre, from Old French, alteration (influenced by cloison, partition) of clostre, from Latin claustrum, enclosed place, from claudere, to close.]
[kloi-ster] 
