| 单词 | cloistered |
| 释义 | cloistered (once / 6603 pages) adj WORD FAMILY cloister: cloistered, cloistering, cloisters, cloistral USAGE EXAMPLESNow, if you ask me, theologians are not too far removed from the insufferable cloistered scribes of the nation’s greatest newspaper. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) It eventually became clear that the aim of the rules was to keep women cloistered inside their homes. New York Times(Dec 12, 2016) Exxon today is an unusually cloistered corporation that promotes virtually all of its top executives from within. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) 1adj providing privacy or seclusion the cloistered academic world of books Syn reclusive, secluded, sequestered private confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy 2adj of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows Syn cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical unworldly not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations |
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