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How to pronounce “cloister”

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Pronunciation guide for cloister

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of cloister with real speech in context.
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Real speech example: Clariel: The Lost AbhorsenLike a cloister garden in a church.
Definition summary: A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:

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Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen

Like a cloister garden in a church.

[Noun]
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.
(figuratively) The monastic life.
[Verb]
(intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
(transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
(intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
(transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
(transitive) To protect or isolate.

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