noun

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

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

3. The monastic life.

verb

1. To become a Roman Catholic religious.

2. To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.

3. To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.

Synonyms: enter religion