Synonyms for cloister
- noun
- verb
Definitions
- n. 1
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially: such an arcade in a monastery;
- v. 1
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
Related words
- Word family
- cloistress cloisterly cloistral cloistered
Forms
- Plural
- cloisters → convents, monasteries, abbeys, priories…
- Past participle
- cloistered
e.g. cloistered → immured, encloistered…
Example sentences
- abbey I want to see the medieval tiles in the nearby abbey.
- monastery I'd rather live in a monastery with Internet access.
- convent Rima visited a convent in the middle of the island.
- nunnery Every nunnery has its own rules.
By length
- 5 letters
- abbey2
- 6 letters
- priory3, immure
- 7 letters
- convent2, nunnery3
- 9 letters
- monastery4
- 10 letters
- encloister
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (abbey2 = 2 syllables).