Cloister

German Meaning

Kloster

Kreuzgang

Klausur

English Meaning

  1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle.
  2. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
  3. Life in a monastery or convent.
  4. A secluded, quiet place.
  5. To shut away from the world in or as if in a cloister; seclude.
  6. To furnish (a building) with a cloister.