| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb cloister.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cloister) | 1. Surround with a cloister, as of a garden.[Wordnet]. 2. Surround with a cloister; "cloister the garden".[Wordnet]. 3. Seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office".[Wordnet]. 4. To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: cloistering, cloistered, cloisters, cloisterer, cloisterers, cloisteringly and cloisteredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CLOISTERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CLOISTERING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Shutting up in a monastery; confining; secluding from the world.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of cloister. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: cloister
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cloister garth | (Arch.), the garden or open part of a court inclosed by the cloisters. Syn: Cloister , Monastery , Nunnery , Convent , Abbey , Priory . Usage: Cloister and convent are generic terms, and denote a place of seclusion from the world for persons who devote their lives to religious purposes. They differ is that the distinctive idea of cloister is that of seclusion from the world, that of convent, community of living. Both terms denote houses for recluses of either sex. A cloister or convent for monks is called a monastery; for nuns, a nunnery. An abbey is a convent or monastic institution governed by an abbot or an abbess; a priory is one governed by a prior or a prioress, and is usually affiliated to an abbey. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Cloister Inn | Cloister Inn is one of the undergraduate eating clubs at Princeton University. Founded in 1912, Cloister occupies a neo-Gothic building on Prospect Avenue, between Cap and Gown Club and Charter Club. Cloister closed temporarily in 1972, becoming open to all Princeton alumni, before reopening as an undergraduate club in 1977. The club is "sign-in," meaning that it selects its members from a lottery process rather than the bicker process used by several of the eating clubs. (references) | ||
| Ephrata Cloister | The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: cloister | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Cloister | 21 | Cloister | 21 | |
| Ephrata Cloister | 17 | Cloister (horse) | 6 | |
| Cloister (horse) | 6 | Cloister Frauenroth | 3 | |
| Cloister vault | 6 | Cloister vault | 6 | |
| The Cloister and the Hearth | 5 | Ephrata Cloister | 17 | |
| Cloister Frauenroth | 3 | The Cloister and the Hearth | 5 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
