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cloistered

adjective

clois·​tered ˈklȯi-stərd How to pronounce cloistered (audio)
1
: being or living in or as if in a cloister
cloistered nuns
2
: providing shelter from contact with the outside world
the cloistered atmosphere of a small college
the cloistered life of the monastery

Example Sentences

She leads a private, cloistered life in the country. He spent most of his adult life cloistered in universities.
Recent Examples on the Web Always cloistered and remote, the court is now impenetrable. New York Times, 3 July 2022 Like European neo-fascists elsewhere, the Brothers revile immigration and grandstand over a cloistered, narrow vision of national identity. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2022 But Rogers, who had earned a Grammy nomination for best new artist with that album, which merged her folky singer-songwriter roots with dance-tent momentum, didn’t stay cloistered for long. New York Times, 24 July 2022 Houlihan’s story offers a rare look at the cloistered world of professional track, at the corporate sponsors that underwrite their own squads, and at a sport that continues to struggle to police the use of performance-enhancing drugs. oregonlive, 3 July 2022 The moment when the fairy tale about pure and cloistered colleges began to fall apart can be dated with some precision. Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022 The Idaho town was a bit too cloistered though, at least for Dawson. Samuel Gilbert, Outside Online, 16 May 2020 The university campus, with its cloistered, hyperlocal concerns, has always been fertile ground for absurdist comedy. Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022 The repressed, cloistered women are instinctively aware of their own repression, and respond to it by making their own clear-eyed choices of suitors and potential husbands. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of cloistered was in 1581

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