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 →

2) (old use) A cloister is a place where monks or nuns live apart from the world. tree →

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 →
• The arched cloisters were covered with sand. tree →
• He went into the cloister to pray and study. tree →
• Some monks walked slowly round the cloister. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cloister» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.