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friary
English
Etymology
From friar (“brother”) in a religious order, from Latin frater (“brother”), from Latin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?a???i/
- Rhymes: -a???i
Noun
friary (plural friaries)
- house or dwelling where friars or members of certain religious communities live
Derived terms
- Witham Friary
Related terms
- friar
Translations
See also
- convent
- monastery
Adjective
friary (comparative more friary, superlative most friary)
- Like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)
Translations
Anagrams
- rarify
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cloister
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)
- A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
- such an arcade in a monastery;
- such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
- (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
- The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.
- (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
- Alternative form of cloistre
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