The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CLOISTER
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More clues leading to the result CLOISTER
- Costlier renovation for monastery, say?
- Part of a cathedral made over to relics
- Potentially costlier place of retirement
- Son cuts college to hang around arcade
- Lane found in court by queen’s secluded area
- Cold and idle hanging around small corridor
- Enclosed place that might be costlier
- Varied relics to hide
- Dawdle around square at first under cold arcade
- Third-rate celeb tours old monastery
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The straight part
We know that "monastery" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case monastery = cloister.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CLOISTER mean?
CLOISTER noun- A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- The monastic life.
- To become a Roman Catholic religious.
- To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
- To protect or isolate.