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Of, pertaining to, resembling or living in a cloister.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1606, Samuel Daniel, The Queen’s Arcadia, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, London: R. Gosling, 1717, The Epistle, pp. 151-152, ... it is in that Kind [of Words], as best accords With rural Passions, which use not to reach Beyond the Groves, and Woods, where they were bred And best become a Cloistral Exercise, Where Men shut out retir’d, and sequestred From publick Fashion, seem to sympathize With innocent and plain Simplicity:
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: claustral
Antonyms: none provided
Sheltered from the world; monastic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Secluded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical
Antonyms: none provided
Ultimately from Latin claustrālis (“of the cloister”), probably via Middle French cloistral. Doublet of claustral.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Czech:
klášterní
— of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister
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Finnish:
luostari-
— of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister
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French:
claustral
— of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister
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German:
klösterlich
— of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister
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Hungarian:
kolostori
— of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister
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Italian:
claustrale
— of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister
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Russian:
монасты́рский
(monastýrskij)
— of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister
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Spanish:
claustral
— of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister
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French:
monastique
— sheltered from the world; monastic
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French:
monacal
— sheltered from the world; monastic
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German:
klösterlich
— sheltered from the world; monastic
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German:
Mönchs-
— sheltered from the world; monastic
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Portuguese:
monástico
— sheltered from the world; monastic
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Russian:
монасты́рский
(monastýrskij)
— sheltered from the world; monastic
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Spanish:
monástico
— sheltered from the world; monastic
