An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
such an arcade in a monastery;
The monastic life.
such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
To protect or isolate.