cloister

noun

1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
2. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
3. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
4. (figuratively)The monastic life.

verb

1. (intransitive)To become a Roman Catholic religious.
2. (transitive)To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
3. (intransitive)To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
4. (transitive)To provide with a cloister or cloisters.

   “The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.”

5. (transitive)To protect or isolate.

   “Unique condo cloistered on top of hill.”