cloister

Other forms of cloister

plural

cloisters·

past tense

cloisterred·

present participle

cloisterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cloister

What does cloister mean?

cloister means "surround with a cloister, as of a garden". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cloister?

cloister has 2 syllables: cloi-ster. The stress falls on "cloi". In IPA it is /ˈklɔɪstɚ/.

What is another word for cloister?

Close synonyms include religious residence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cloister a common word?

cloister is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.