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# cloister

«cloister» in Mova's school dictionary: **a covered walk with arches around an open square inside a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cloister, cloisters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cloister is a covered walk with arches around an open square inside a church or monastery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloister/#m1)

2) (old use) A cloister is a place where monks or nuns live apart from the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloister/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the quiet place where nuns or monks live and pray, shut away from ordinary life; «retired into the cloister» means went to live there

### examples

- This was the cloister of the nuns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloister/#x1)
- The arched cloisters were covered with sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloister/#x2)
- He went into the cloister to pray and study. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloister/#x3)
- Some monks walked slowly round the cloister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloister/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cloister» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cloister/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.