What is the meaning of Cloister?

A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:

  1. such an arcade in a monastery;
  2. such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.

such an arcade in a monastery;

such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.

A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.

The monastic life.

To become a Roman Catholic religious.

To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.

To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.

To provide with a cloister or cloisters.

To protect or isolate.

Alternative form of cloistre

Source: wiktionary.org