cloister
noun
[ ˈklɔɪstə ]
• a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.
• "the shadowed cloisters of the convent"
Similar:
walkway,
covered walk,
corridor,
aisle,
arcade,
loggia,
gallery,
piazza,
colonnade,
ambulatory,
stoa,
cloister
verb
• seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.
• "the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘place of religious seclusion’): from Old French cloistre, from Latin claustrum, clostrum ‘lock, enclosed place’, from claudere, ‘to close’.
