Kloster
German, noun
Kloster is spelled K-L-O-S-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written German, the 3,888th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kloster is a German neuter noun meaning “convent, monastery, cloister” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Klöster is a different word: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Kloster”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gebäude und eventuell weitere Bauwerke, in denen Menschen (meist Mönche oder Nonnen) in einer auf die…”.
What does Kloster mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterconvent, monastery, cloister
noun
- 1
neuternominative/accusative/genitive plural of Kloster
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gebäude und eventuell weitere Bauwerke, in denen Menschen (meist Mönche oder Nonnen) in einer auf die Ausübung ihres Glaubens konzentrierten Lebensweise abgeschieden zusammenleben 2. Gesamtheit der Personen, die in [1] leben
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Kloster
- Klosters genitive
- Klöster plural
- Klösterchen diminutive neuter
- Klösterlein diminutive neuter
- Klöstern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Kloster
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Kloster in German?
Kloster appears 20 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).