different between cloister vs monk

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English monk, from Old English munuc, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin monachus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (monakhós, “single, solitary”), from ????? (mónos, “alone”).

Alternative forms

• moncke (obsolete)

Noun

monk (plural monks)

1. A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
2. in earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
3. (slang) A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
4. (slang) An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
5. (slang) A judge.
6. (printing) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed; distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
7. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
8. A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
9. The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
10. The monkfish.
11. (historical) A fuse for firing mines.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:recluse

Derived terms

• Monk Bretton
• Monk Fryston
• monkette

Related terms

• monastery
• monastic
• monasticism

Translations

Verb

monk (third-person singular simple present monks, present participle monking, simple past and past participle monked)

1. To be a monk.
2. To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative.
3. To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic.
4. To be intoxicated or confused.
5. To be attached in a way that sticks out.

See also

Etymology 2

By shortening.

Noun

monk (plural monks)

1. (colloquial) A monkey.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• monke

Etymology

From Old English munuc.

Noun

monk (plural monks)

1. monk
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

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Descendants

• English: monk

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian mong, mang, from Proto-Germanic *mang? (“crowd”). Compare English among.

Preposition

monk

1. among

Synonyms

• monken