cloister

A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:

A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:

A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.

The monastic life.

To become a Roman Catholic religious.

To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.

To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.

To provide with a cloister or cloisters.

The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.

To protect or isolate.

Unique condo cloistered on top of hill.