adjective
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secluded or shut up from the world
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living in a monastery or nunnery
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(of a building, courtyard, etc) having or provided with a cloister
Other Word Forms
- noncloistered adjective
- uncloistered adjective
- well-cloistered adjective
Etymology
Origin of cloistered
Example Sentences
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He was born into the cloistered art world as the son of a German Jewish art dealer who fled Berlin in the 1930s and restarted his business in London.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
A vast blaze has torn through the historic Bernaga Monastery in northern Italy, the Italian fire service said Sunday, forcing the evacuation of 22 cloistered nuns.
From Barron's • Oct. 12, 2025
Yet his work has never stayed cloistered within academia.
From Salon • May 28, 2025
The assured magnate, the superficial wife, the doted-upon child who was raised so cloistered he whistles canary songs to a tank of crawdads and tries to teach pet tricks to a fish.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024
When Clara was alive and Alba was still a child, the big house on the comer was a cloistered world in which she grew up protected even from her own nightmares.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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