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cohort
[ koh-hawrt ]
noun
- a group or company:
She has a cohort of admirers.
- a companion or associate.
- one of the ten divisions in an ancient Roman legion, numbering from 300 to 600 soldiers.
- any group of soldiers or warriors.
- an accomplice; abettor:
He got off with probation, but his cohorts got ten years apiece.
- a group of persons sharing a particular statistical or demographic characteristic:
the cohort of all children born in 1980.
- Biology. an individual in a population of the same species.
cohort
/ ˈkəʊhɔːt /
noun
- one of the ten units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion
- any band of warriors or associates
the cohorts of Satan
- an associate or follower
- biology a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a subclass (usually of mammals) or subfamily (of plants)
- statistics a group of people with a statistic in common, esp having been born in the same year
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cohort1
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Example Sentences
Good luck finding that cohort of “naïve” participants, noble goal though that it is.
The middle cohort of those voters—Americans in their twenties—were alive during the 1990s, but not politically aware.
Can a group of establishment senators break him, as a previous cohort, led by Margaret Chase Smith, broke Joe McCarthy?
It is mostly this same cohort - 18 to 24 year olds - who buy and play war games.
Here was a cohort, after all, that grew up thinking that it could, and would, change the world.
It must have covered about eighty acres, and was garrisoned by the first cohort of Vetasii from Brabant.
Between and among all which masses flows without limit Saint-Antoine and the Menadic cohort.
An elevator took the determined Persis and her cohort up to another thronged vestibule.
As soon as they descried the army which was approaching, they threw themselves on those which were at the head of the cohort.
Pretorie, s. the Roman imperial body-guard, the Pretorian cohort, B 1.
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