cohort
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
cohort (plural cohorts)
- A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
- 1887 July, George Romanes, Mental Differences of Men and Women, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 31,
- Coyness and caprice have in consequence become a heritage of the sex, together with a cohort of allied weaknesses and petty deceits, that men have come to think venial, and even amiable, in women, but which they would not tolerate among themselves.
- 1919, Albert Payson Terhune, Lad: A Dog, Chapter VI: Lost!,
- A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.
- 1887 July, George Romanes, Mental Differences of Men and Women, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 31,
- (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
- The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.
- (historical, Ancient Rome, military) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.
- Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.
- 1900, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (translator), Letters to Atticus, 5.20,
- But he lost the whole of his first cohort and the centurion of the first line, a man of high rank in his own class, Asinius Dento, and the other centurions of the same cohort, as well as a military tribune, Sext. Lucilius, son of T. Gavius Caepio, a man of wealth, and high position.
- 1913, Cornelius, article in Catholic Encyclopedia,
- The cohort in which he was centurion was probably the Cohors II Italica civium Romanorum, which a recently discovered inscription proves to have been stationed in Syria before A.D. 69.
- An accomplice; abettor; associate.
- He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts, as well as the source of the information.
- Any band or body of warriors.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- With him the cohort bright / Of watchful cherubim.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
- A colleague.
- A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.
- The students in my cohort for my organic chemistry class this year are not up to snuff. Last year's cohort scored much higher averages on the mid-term.
- German: Klasse, Gruppe
- Portuguese: seguidores, seguidoras
- Russian: коллекти́в
- Spanish: seguidor, cohorte
- French: cohorte
- German: Kohorte, Klasse, Kategorie
- Italian: coorte
- Portuguese: coorte
- Russian: кого́рта
- Spanish: cohorte
cohort (cohorts, present participle cohorting; past and past participle cohorted)
- To associate with such a group
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