| verb | surround with a cloister, as of a garden |
| verb | surround with a cloister “cloister the garden” |
| verb | seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister “She cloistered herself in the office” |
| adjective | of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows |
| adjective | providing privacy or seclusion “the cloistered academic world of books” |
| cloister | noun | a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) |
| convent | noun | a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together |
| monastic | noun | a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work |
| reclusiveness | noun | a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation |