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cloyster

cloyster is the obsolete spelling of cloister.

Meaning of cloister

Noun

cloister (plural cloisters)

  1. such an arcade in a monastery;
  2. such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
  3. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
  4. (figuratively) The monastic life.

See all 9 meanings of cloister

Forms of cloyster

Noun
pluralcloysters
Verb
third-person singular presentcloysters
present participlecloystering
past participlecloystered
pastcloystered

Questions about cloyster

What is cloyster the obsolete spelling of?
Cloyster is the obsolete spelling of cloister.

Words near cloyster in the dictionary

  1. cloyless
  2. cloyment
  3. cloyne
  4. cloys
  5. cloysome
  6. cloyster
  7. cloystered
  8. cloystering
  9. cloysters
  10. clozapine
  11. clozapines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cloyster (page history and authors); cloister (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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