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CLOISTRAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cloistral mean?
• CLOISTRAL (adjective)
The adjective CLOISTRAL has 1 sense:
1. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Familiarity information: CLOISTRAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Synonyms:
cloistered; cloistral; conventual; monastic; monastical
Similar:
unworldly (not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations)
Derivation:
cloister (residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery))
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