different between asylum vs cloister

English

Etymology

From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sa?l?m/

Noun

asylum (plural asylums or asyla)

1. A place of safety.
2. The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
3. (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.

Synonyms

• sanctuary
• shelter

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• refugee

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?sy?.lum/, [ä?s?y??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?si.lum/, [??s?i?lum]

Noun

as?lum n (genitive as?l?); second declension

1. asylum (place of refuge), sanctuary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

References

• asylum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• asylum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• asylum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• asylum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• asylum in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• asylum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Alternative forms

• cloistre (obsolete)

Etymology

Recorded since about 1300 as Middle English cloistre, borrowed from Old French cloistre, clostre, or via Old English clauster, both from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”), a derivation of the past participle of claudere (“to close”). Doublet of claustrum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl??st?/
• (US) enPR: kloi?st?r, IPA^(key): /?kl??st?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(?)

Noun

cloister (plural cloisters)

1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
   1. such an arcade in a monastery;
   2. such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
2. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
3. (figuratively) The monastic life.

Derived terms

• cloisterer
• cloisterless
• cloisterlike
• cloister vault
• cloistral
• cloistress
• encloister

Related terms

• claustrum
• claustral
• claustrophobia

Translations

Verb

cloister (third-person singular simple present cloisters, present participle cloistering, simple past and past participle cloistered)

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.

Synonyms

• (become a Catholic religious) enter religion

Derived terms

• cloistered
• uncloister

Related terms

• claustration

Translations

See also

• abbey
• hermitage
• monastery
• nunnery

Anagrams

• citolers, cloistre, coistrel, cortiles, costlier, creolist, sterolic

Middle English

Noun

cloister

1. Alternative form of cloistre