Definition of cloister

• v. t. - An inclosed place.
• v. t. - A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
• v. t. - the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
• v. t. - A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
• v. t. - To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.