residence vs cloister

residence and cloister both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
residence	Yes	No	No	No
cloister	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, cloister is a hyponym of residence; that is, cloister is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than residence:

residence: the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
cloister: residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)

Other hyponyms of residence include court, deanery, manse, palace, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, religious residence.

residence (noun)	cloister (noun)
the act of dwelling in a place	residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)	a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
a large and imposing house
any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

residence (verb)	cloister (verb)
	seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
	surround with a cloister
	surround with a cloister, as of a garden