Meaning of "cloister" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CLOISTER

From Old French cloistre, from Medieval Latin claustrum monastic cell, from Latin: bolt, barrier, from claudere to close; influenced in form by Old French cloison partition.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CLOISTER

cloister  [ˈklɔɪstə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLOISTER

Cloister is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb cloister in English.

WHAT DOES CLOISTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cloister

A cloister is a rectangular open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries, with open arcades on the inner side, running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a warm southern flank, usually indicates that it is part of a monastic foundation, "forming a continuous and solid architectural barrier... that effectively separates the world of the monks from that of the serfs and workmen, whose lives and works went on outside and around the cloister." Cloistered life is also another name for the life of a monk or nun in the enclosed religious orders; the modern English term enclosure is used in contemporary Catholic church law translations to mean cloistered, and some form of the Latin parent word "claustrum" is frequently used as a metonymic name for monastery in languages such as German.

Definition of cloister in the English dictionary

The first definition of cloister in the dictionary is a covered walk, usually around a quadrangle in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade on the inside and a wall on the outside. Other definition of cloister is a place of religious seclusion, such as a monastery. Cloister is also life in a monastery or convent.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CLOISTER

PRESENT

Present

I cloister

you cloister

he/she/it cloisters

we cloister

you cloister

they cloister

Present continuous

I am cloistering

you are cloistering

he/she/it is cloistering

we are cloistering

you are cloistering

they are cloistering

Present perfect

I have cloistered

you have cloistered

he/she/it has cloistered

we have cloistered

you have cloistered

they have cloistered

Present perfect continuous

I have been cloistering

you have been cloistering

he/she/it has been cloistering

we have been cloistering

you have been cloistering

they have been cloistering

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I cloistered

you cloistered

he/she/it cloistered

we cloistered

you cloistered

they cloistered

Past continuous

I was cloistering

you were cloistering

he/she/it was cloistering

we were cloistering

you were cloistering

they were cloistering

Past perfect

I had cloistered

you had cloistered

he/she/it had cloistered

we had cloistered

you had cloistered

they had cloistered

Past perfect continuous

I had been cloistering

you had been cloistering

he/she/it had been cloistering

we had been cloistering

you had been cloistering

they had been cloistering

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will cloister

you will cloister

he/she/it will cloister

we will cloister

you will cloister

they will cloister

Future continuous

I will be cloistering

you will be cloistering

he/she/it will be cloistering

we will be cloistering

you will be cloistering

they will be cloistering

Future perfect

I will have cloistered

you will have cloistered

he/she/it will have cloistered

we will have cloistered

you will have cloistered

they will have cloistered

Future perfect continuous

I will have been cloistering

you will have been cloistering

he/she/it will have been cloistering

we will have been cloistering

you will have been cloistering

they will have been cloistering

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would cloister

you would cloister

he/she/it would cloister

we would cloister

you would cloister

they would cloister

Conditional continuous

I would be cloistering

you would be cloistering

he/she/it would be cloistering

we would be cloistering

you would be cloistering

they would be cloistering

Conditional perfect

I would have cloister

you would have cloister

he/she/it would have cloister

we would have cloister

you would have cloister

they would have cloister

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been cloistering

you would have been cloistering

he/she/it would have been cloistering

we would have been cloistering

you would have been cloistering

they would have been cloistering

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you cloister
we let´s cloister
you cloister

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to cloister

Past participle

cloistered

Present Participle

cloistering

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

TRANSLATION OF CLOISTER

Find out the translation of cloister to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of cloister from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cloister» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 回廊
• Translator English - Spanish: claustro
• English: cloister
• Translator English - Hindi: मठ
• Translator English - Arabic: الدير
• Translator English - Russian: монастырь
• Translator English - Portuguese: claustro
• Translator English - Bengali: মঠ
• Translator English - French: cloître
• Translator English - Malay: Cloister
• Translator English - German: Kloster
• Translator English - Japanese: 回廊
• Translator English - Korean: 회랑
• Translator English - Javanese: Cloister
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tu viện
• Translator English - Tamil: மறைவிடம்
• Translator English - Marathi: मठ
• Translator English - Turkish: manastır
• Translator English - Italian: chiostro
• Translator English - Polish: klasztor
• Translator English - Ukrainian: монастир
• Translator English - Romanian: mănăstire
• Translator English - Greek: μοναστήρι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: klooster
• Translator English - Swedish: cloister
• Translator English - Norwegian: kloster

4 QUOTES WITH «CLOISTER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cloister.

1

Kim Edwards

After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

2

Abbe Pierre

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

3

Bayard Taylor

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

4

Neil Turok

Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLOISTER»

Discover the use of cloister in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cloister and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Cloister Walk

" -The Boston Globe "The Cloister Walk is a new opportunity to discover a remarkable writer with a huge, wise heart...Norris resonates deeply for a lot of people: She's one of those writers who demands to be handed around.

Kathleen Norris, 1997

A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching ...

A Social History of the Cloister is a study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of history, a history that provided the beginnings and inspiration for most of today's institutions for the Catholic education ...

Elizabeth Rapley, 2001

Knights of the Cloister: Templars and Hospitallers in ...

The Templars' and Hospitallers' daily business of recruitment, fund-raising, farming, shipping and communal life explored alongside their commitment to crusading.

Dominic Selwood, 1999

Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in ...

Bouchard provides a fresh perspective on social and ecclesiastical life in the High Middle Ages, drawing on a vast range of primary sources to reveal the surprisingly close relationship between monasteries and the nobility.

Constance Brittain Bouchard, 2009

Cloister of the Heart: Association of Contemplative Sisters

CLOISTER OF THE HEART tells the story of the Association of Contemplative Sisters: its gestation, its inception in 1969, and what has transpired since then.

Ann Denham, Gert Wilkinson, 2009

Pictorial Narrative in the Romanesque Cloister: Cloister ...

Patton (art history, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, Texas) focuses on three cloisters in the Medieval province of Tarragona in the northeast part of Spain to investigate whether the decoration was conceived as a cohesive iconographic ...

Pamela Anne Patton, 2004

Life in the Medieval Cloister

Philosophy.

Julie Kerr, 2009

Cloister Talks: Learning from My Friends the Monks

"--James C. Howell, author of The Beautiful Work of Learning to Pray "Cloister Talks is a contemplative conversation inviting us to know ourselves in the deep, deep love of the One by whom we're already known.

Jon M Sweeney, 2009

Cloister and Community: Life Within a Carmelite Monastery

Living inside a medieval system has produced a group of women remarkably at home in new understandings of prayer, cloister, and community."--BOOK JACKET.

Mary Jo Weaver, 2002

The Black Cloister

On Elise Friedman's eighth birthday, she lost her mother and any connection to her mysterious past.

Melanie Dobson

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLOISTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cloister is used in the context of the following news items.

Bouchra Jarrar Couture Fall 2015

... red and yellow to give it a more steely cast, like the slate sky that hovered over her open-air show, staged in the cloister of the Lycée Henri-IV. «WWD, Jul 15»

Harper Lee's Story Comes To Atlanta's Synchronicity Theatre

... author Margaret Mitchell was first performed in 2011. The following year “Nelle's Story” premiered at The Cloister on Georgia's Sea Island. «WABE 90.1 FM, Jul 15»

'Dakota' author to speak at Aging Faithfully conference

Norris, who divides her time between South Dakota and Hawaii, wrote the New York Times best-sellers “The Cloister Walk,” “Dakota: A Spiritual ... «Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Jul 15»

Royal Mint Marks 75 Years Since Battle of Britain with Precious …

... the United Kingdom, including the Bali Bombing Memorial at Horse Guards Road, London and the Christ Church Cloister fountain in Oxford. «CoinWeek, Jul 15»

Bishop and Lord Shuttleworth to don hard hats and 'hi-vis' jackets

The complex will provide a library, refectory, conference room, an enclosed cloister garden, underground car park for 50 cars, four townhouses ... «Lancaster and Morecambe Citizen, Jul 15»

St. Maria Goretti: The Girl Who Lived

As Kathleen Norris wrote in her book, The Cloister Walk: Exploitation is at the heart of Maria Goretti's story, so much so that I wonder if it is ... «Patheos, Jul 15»

Hyperspectral imaging recaptures Brandenburg frescos

The upper cloister of Brandenburg Cathedral: Details of the wall frescos such as horses were revealed with a hyperspectral camera. Credit: ... «Imaging and Machine Vision Europe, Jul 15»

Women's Open gives Lancaster the chance to brand itself to broad …

... stalwarts Dutch Wonderland, the Landis Valley & Farm Museum, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg and Ephrata Cloister. «LancasterOnline, Jul 15»

Orpheus in the Underworld, Iford Arts, review: 'thoroughly jolly'

Yet abetted by the seductively beautiful environment of Iford's cloister and garden near Bath, the Opera della Luna company has almost broken ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

Doctor Who: The Drosten's Curse by AL Kennedy, book review

Kennedy is clearly a Whovian: there are cameos for Davros and the Wirrn, the Cloister Bell and artron energy (no Sonic Screwdriver, that ... «The Independent, Jul 15»