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say it: KLOY-sturd
cloistered is an adjective meaning "of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows". It carries 2 recorded senses.
of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
providing privacy or seclusion
“the cloistered academic world of books”
“sat close together in the sequestered pergola”
“sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree”
“a secluded romantic spot”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cloistered come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.