verb
- Surround with a cloister, as of a garden.
- synonyms: cloister
- Surround with a cloister.
- usage: "cloister the garden"
- synonyms: cloister
- Seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister.
- usage: "She cloistered herself in the office"
- synonyms: cloister
adjective
- Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.
- synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical
- Providing privacy or seclusion.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered
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