co·hort (k  hôrt )n. 1. A group or band of people. 2. A companion or associate. 3. A generational group as defined in demographics, statistics, or market research: "The cohort of people aged 30 to 39 . . . were more conservative" (American Demographics). 4. a. One of the 10 divisions of a Roman legion, consisting of 300 to 600 men. b. A group of soldiers. [Middle English, from Old French cohorte, from Latin cohors, cohort-; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.] Usage Note: In Caesar's Gallic War a cohort was a unit of soldiers. There were 6 centuries (100 men) to a cohort, 10 cohorts to a legion (therefore 6,000 men). A century, then, would correspond to a company, a cohort to a battalion, and a legion to a regiment. Because of the word's history, some critics insist that cohort should be used only to refer to a group of people and never to an individual. In recent years, however, the use of cohort to refer to an individual rather than a group has become very common and is now in fact the dominant usage. Seventy-one percent of the Usage Panel accepts the sentence The cashiered dictator and his cohorts have all written their memoirs, while only 43 percent accepts The gangster walked into the room surrounded by his cohort. · Perhaps because of its original military meaning and paramilitary associations, cohort usually has a somewhat negative connotation, and therefore critics of the President rather than his supporters might use a phrase like the President and his cohorts. |
cohort [ˈkəʊhɔːt]
n
1. (Military) 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. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Biology a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a subclass (usually of mammals) or subfamily (of plants)
5. (Mathematics & Measurements / Statistics) Statistics a group of people with a statistic in common, esp having been born in the same year
[from Latin cohors yard, company of soldiers; related to hortus garden]
Cohort a division in the Roman army; a band of warriors. See also band, company.
Examples: cohort of acquaintances, 1719; of bright cherubim, 1667; of Christian fathers, 1858; of infantry, 1489; of priests, 1874; of social regenerators, 1871; of warriors, 1500.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. | cohort - a company of companions or supporters company - a social gathering of guests or companions; "the house was filled with company when I arrived" |
| 2. | cohort - a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | |
| 3. |  cohort - a group of people having approximately the same agepeople - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
cohort
noun
1. (Chiefly U.S.) supporter, partner, associate, mate, assistant, follower, comrade, protagonist, accomplice, sidekick (slang), henchman Drake and his cohorts were not pleased at my promotion.
2. group, set, band, contingent, batch We now have results for the first cohort of pupils to be assessed.
Translations
n cohort [ˈkouhoːt]
a group of people She has cohorts of admirers. kohort مَجْموعَه، كَتيبَه група skupina skare die Schar ομάδα cohorte kaaskond گروه؛ دسته lauma cohorte חָבוּרָה सहयोग kohorta csapat kelompok flokkur, hópur; áhangendahópur schiera 一団 무리 būrys, gauja kohorta; (cieši saliedēta) cilvēku grupa kelompok schare, menigte skare, flokk; følgesvenner gromada bando tovarăş когорта skupina kohorta horda skara, band เพื่อนร่วมงาน grup, topluluk 一群人 когорта گروہ đội quân 一群
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