A covered walkway with an open colonnade, typically found in a monastery or fitted with representations of christ's passion.

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

(figurative) The monastic life.

(intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.

(transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.

(intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.

(transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.

(transitive) To protect or isolate.