cohort
Use Cohort in a sentence
hɔrt noun
1.
a group or company: She has a cohort of admirers.
2.
a companion or associate.
3.
one of the ten divisions in an ancient Roman legion, numbering from 300 to 600 soldiers.
4.
any group of soldiers or warriors.
5.
an accomplice; abettor: He got off with probation, but his cohorts got ten years apiece.
Origin:
1475–85; < Middle French cohorte < Latin cohort- (stem of cohors) farmyard, armed force (orig. from a particular place or camp), cohort, retinue, equivalent to co- co- + hort- (akin to hortus garden); replacing late Middle English cohors < L nominative singular
1475–85; < Middle French cohorte < Latin cohort- (stem of cohors) farmyard, armed force (orig. from a particular place or camp), cohort, retinue, equivalent to co- co- + hort- (akin to hortus garden); replacing late Middle English cohors < L nominative singular
Synonyms
2. friend, comrade, fellow, chum, pal, buddy.
2. friend, comrade, fellow, chum, pal, buddy.
Usage note
A cohort was originally one of the ten divisions of a legion in the Roman army, containing from 300 to 600 men. The most common use of cohort today is in the sense “group” or “company”: A cohort of hangers-on followed the singer down the corridor. In a development emphasizing the idea of companionship, cohort has also come to mean a single companion, associate, or the like: The senator strode into the room followed by his faithful cohort, his son-in-law.
A cohort was originally one of the ten divisions of a legion in the Roman army, containing from 300 to 600 men. The most common use of cohort today is in the sense “group” or “company”: A cohort of hangers-on followed the singer down the corridor. In a development emphasizing the idea of companionship, cohort has also come to mean a single companion, associate, or the like: The senator strode into the room followed by his faithful cohort, his son-in-law.
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World English Dictionary
cohort (ˈkəʊhɔːt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | one of the ten units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion |
| 2. | any band of warriors or associates: the cohorts of Satan |
| 3. | chiefly (US) an associate or follower |
| 4. | biology a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a subclass (usually of mammals) or subfamily (of plants) |
| 5. | statistics a group of people with a statistic in common, esp having been born in the same year |
| [C15: from Latin cohors yard, company of soldiers; related to hortus garden] | |
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Word Origin & History
cohort
1422, from L. cohortem, acc. of cohors "enclosure," meaning extended to "infantry company" in Roman army (a tenth part of a legion) through notion of "enclosed group, retinue," from com- "with" + root akin to hortus "garden," from PIE *ghr-ti-, from base *gher- "to grasp, enclose" (see
yard (1)). Sense of "accomplice" is first recorded 1952, Amer.Eng.
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Medical Dictionary
cohort co·hort (kō'hôrt')
n.
A defined population group followed prospectively in an epidemiological study.
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Example sentences
But in terms of clinical complications of cardiovascular disease the cohort really hasn't aged enough for us to study that.
It is that the cohort of retired leaders is burgeoning.
Get to know the people in your cohort, in your program, and in the field on a national level.
He remade the bureau in his image, pushed out the old guard and hired more than half its present cohort.
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