Cloister



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 修道院
• ［英］ n. 修道院 ( monastery or convent; nunnery)
• ［记］ cloist=close+er -> 关闭之地 -> 修道院;
• ［同］ 派生词: cloistered ( adj. 隐居的secluded)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English cloistre, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin claustrum, from Latin, bar, bolt, from claudere to close — more at close
• Date: 13th century
• 1.
  • a. a monastic establishment
  • b. an area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are normally restricted
  • c. monastic life
  • d. a place or state of seclusion
• 2. a covered passage on the side of a court usually having one side walled and the other an open arcade or colonnade

II. transitive verb (cloistered; cloistering)

• Date: 1581
• 1. to seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister scientist who cloisters herself in a laboratory
• 2. to surround with a cloister <cloistered gardens

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