cloister
- IPA[ˈkloistər]
美式
- a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other；a convent or monastery.
- seclude or shut up in or as if in a convent or monastery
verb: cloister, 3rd person present: cloisters, gerund or present participle: cloistering, past tense: cloistered, past participle: cloistered
noun: cloister, plural noun: cloisters
- 釋義
- 相關詞
名詞
- 1. a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other the shadowed cloisters of the convent 同義詞
- ▪ a convent or monastery. 同義詞
- ▪ monastic life he was inclined more to the cloister than the sword
動詞
- 1. seclude or shut up in or as if in a convent or monastery the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate she cloisters herself at home
- having or enclosed by a cloister, as in a monastery: a cloistered walkway bordered the courtyard
Oxford American Dictionary
- enclosed by or having a cloister: a cloistered walkway
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[ˈklɔɪstə]
英式
- a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open ... the shadowed cloisters of the convent
- seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery: the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate
Oxford Dictionary
