cloister

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English - Turkish
{f} kapanmak
manastıra kapamak
kemeraltı
{i} manastır
{f} tecrit etmek, ayırmak
{i} revak, kemeraltı
bir binaya bitişik üstü kapalı kemerli yol
{f} inzivaya çekilmek
{i} kemerli yol
cloistered manastırda oturan
{i} dehliz
{i} kapalı geçit
dünyadan uzak
munzevi hayat
{i} revaklı avlu
manastır haline getirmek
{f} manastıra kapatmak
cloistral manastır
ayırmak

Related Terms

cloistered
ot gibi
cloistered
dünyadan uzak
extended cloister vault
(Mimarlık) uzun manastır tonozu
cloisters
dehlizlerinde
cloistered
manastıra kapanmış
cloistered
{s} kapalı
cloistered
{s} manastırla ilgili
cloistered
manastıra kapa
to cloister
manastıra kapatmak
to cloister
manastıra kapamak
English - English
To become a Roman Catholic religious
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not
The monastic life
To provide with (a) cloister(s)

The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.

A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:

such arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.

A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion
To protect or isolate
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things
{v} to shut up in a cloister, to confine
{n} a place of religious retirement, monastery, nunnery, kind of square with piazzas
A square or rectangular courtyard sometimes with gardens, surrounded on all sides by a vaulted arcade Typically devoted to spiritual contemplation or scholarly reflection, a cloister is usually part of a monastery, a church, or occasionally a university
{i} convent; monastery; covered walkway
surround with a cloister, as of a garden
A court, usually with covered walks or ambulatorie along its sides
A covered passage around a quadrangle, found in monasteries (and in buildings imitating monasteries)
An inclosed place
a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office"
seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office"
that of a monastery or a college
A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle
A cloister is a covered area round a square in a monastery or a cathedral. Four-sided enclosure surrounded by covered walkways and usually attached to a monastic or cathedral church; also, the walkways themselves. The earliest cloisters were open arcades, usually with sloping wooden roofs. This form was generally superseded in England by a range of windows lighting a vaulted ambulatory (aisle). In southern climates, the open-arcaded cloister remained standard. An especially fine example is Donato Bramante's two-story open arcade at Santa Maria della Pace, Rome (1500-4)
a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties
part of the monastery, consisting of arches arranged around a central courtyard or a garden Usually set aside for the religious
To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure
covered arcaded walkway around an enclosed area which is usually lawned and called the Garth
The enclosed garden of a monastery, surrounded by a covered walkway; by extension the monastery itself Also, a covered walkway alone
Part of a monastery; a quadrangle surrounded by covered passages It connects the domestic parts of the monastery with the church Usually located on the south side of the church Other parts of monastery: chapter house, refectory, scriptorium
{f} shut away; shut up in a convent or monastery
A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp
residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
A covered walk usually around a quadrangle in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade on the inside and wall on the outside
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion; life in such a place
a covered stone passage around the 4 sites of a courtyard (a square or rectangular space), especially in a religious building such as a church or monastery

Related Terms

cloister oneself
{f} shut oneself up in a convent or monastery
cloister vault
{i} vault in a shape of a dome having a square base or a base shaped like a polygon from which curved sections move upward to a central point
cloister vault
A domelike vault having a square or polygonal base from which curved segments rise to a central point. Also called domical vault
cloistered
Pertaining to one who lives in a cloister or a cloister-like environment, or who was raised that way
cloistered
Simple past tense and past participle of cloister
cloistered
{a} retired, solitary, lonely
cloistered
Furnished with cloisters
cloistered
providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"
cloistered
Dwelling in cloisters; solitary
cloistered
If you have a cloistered way of life, you live quietly and are not involved in the normal busy life of the world around you. the cloistered world of royalty. = sheltered
cloistered
{s} shut off from world
cloistered
of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
cloistered
Pertaining to isolation, protection, being hidden way for the sake of maintaining innocence; naive, lacking in worldliness
cloistering
present participle of cloister
cloisters
third-person singular of cloister
cloisters
plural of cloister
cloister
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