Meaning

8 senses
  1. A group of people supporting the same thing or person.

    Klasse, Gruppe

    коллекти́вkollektív, гру́ппаgrúppa, компа́нияkompánija

    a group of people having approximately the same age

  2. 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.

    Kohorte, Klasse, Kategorie

    кого́ртаkogórta

  3. (Ancient Rome, historical)Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries).

    Holonym: legion

    Meronyms: maniple, century

    Kohorte

    кого́ртаkogórta

    кого́ртаkohórta

    a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)

  4. 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.

  5. Any band or body of warriors.

  6. A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.

  7. A colleague.

  8. 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.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Surprise, surprise: it's Tom and his cohort.

    ruСюрпрайз! Том с дружками явился.

    deÜberraschung: Es ist Tom und seine Gefolgschaft!

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  2. Tom belonged to a small cohort of five people.

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  3. The clarity of the tax code was good enough to become the archetype of perspicuous writing in the lawyer's cohort.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
division of Roman legion:
Русский
By meaning 1
group of people supporting the same thing or person:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
group of people supporting the same thing or person:
demographic grouping of people:

Origin

From Latin cohors (stem cohort-); borrowed into Old English as coorta, but reintroduced in

From Latin cohors (stem cohort-); borrowed into Old English as coorta, but reintroduced into Middle English as cōhort and chōors via Old French cohorte. Doublet of court.

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Forms

plural: cohorts
Singularcohort
Pluralcohorts

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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