how to pronounce cloister

/ˈklɔɪstɚ/

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cloister is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of cloister in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… it is to cloister ourselves away in our …”

meanings of cloister

noun:

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

verb:

To become a Roman Catholic religious.
To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
To protect or isolate.

cloister frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word cloister occurs in english on average 0.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.