cohort
Syllables: co·hortUK/ˈkəʊ̯ˌhɔːt//ˈkoʊ̯ˌhɔɹt/
cohort noun: a group of people supporting the same thing or person.
Noun (1)
cohort (plural cohorts)
- A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
- 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.1887 July, George John Romanes, “Mental Differences of Men and Women”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 31
- A sin, an instant of rebellious pride of the intellect, made Lucifer and a third part of the cohorts of angels fall from their glory.1916, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 154
- 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.
- The elderly are market segments, by generations or microgenerations within age cohorts or by historical experience as personality types.2002, Merry White, Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval, page 169
- Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries).
- Holonym: legion
- Meronyms: maniple, century
- 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.
- He ceas’d; and th’ Archangelic Power prepar’d / For ſwift deſcent, with him the Cohort bright / Of watchful Cherubim; […]1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature...
- 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.
- Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.2023 March 8, Neil Robertson, “Tackling the skills shortage”, in RAIL, number 978, page 33
Verb
cohort (third-person singular simple present cohorts, present participle cohorting, simple past and past participle cohorted)
- To associate with such a group.
Noun (2) capitalized: CoHort
CoHort (plural CoHorts)
- A fan of American author Colleen Hoover (born 1979).
- To the CoHorts for your unrivaled support.2014, Colleen Hoover, “Acknowledgments”, in Ugly Love, Atria Paperback, →ISBN, page 324
- Fans — they call themselves “CoHorts” — get tattoos inspired by her work and vote her books to the top of reader polls.[2018 July 22, Michael Merschel, “Superstar romance author Colleen Hoover talks about her Texas town and unlikely bookstore”, in The Dallas Morning News
cohort meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
cohort in Tamil
- குழு, ஒத்த கருத்துடைய மக்கள் குழு, பெருங்குடும்பம்
cohort in Marathi
- कोहोर्ट
cohort in Urdu
- دستہ
cohort in Bengali
- সমবৈশিষ্ট্যসম্পন্ন দল, গোষ্ঠী
More languagesFewer languages
- cohort in Telugu
- కోహోర్ట్, కోహార్ట్
- cohort in Malayalam
- പട, പടവ്യൂഹം, വ്യുഹം, സേനാവ്യുഹം
- cohort in Kannada
- ಕೋಹೋರ್ಟ್, ಕೋಹಾರ್ಟ್
- cohort in Gujarati
- કોહોર્ટ
- cohort in Nepali
- कोहोर्ट
- cohort in Indonesian
- kohor
Examples of cohort in a sentence
- Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.
- No succoring cohort surges to the relief.1919, Albert Payson Terhune, chapter VI, in Lad: A Dog, Lost!:
- 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. 69.1908, F. Bechtel, “Cornelius”, in Charles G[eorge] Herbermann, Edward A[loysius] Pace, Condé B[enoist] Pallen, Thomas J[oseph] Shahan, John...
- Leave not a cohort in Britain.' These are my orders.1910, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Last of the Legions:
Forms of cohort
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cohorts |
| plural | CoHorts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cohorts |
| present participle | cohorting |
| past participle | cohorted |
| past | cohorted |
Origin of cohort
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.
Blend of CoHo (“Colleen Hoover”) + cohort.
Words formed from cohort
Phrases with cohort
Questions about cohort
- What does cohort mean?
- Cohort means a group of people supporting the same thing or person.
- What is cohort in Tamil?
- Cohort in Tamil is குழு, ஒத்த கருத்துடைய மக்கள் குழு, பெருங்குடும்பம். See Cohort meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use cohort in a sentence?
- Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.
- What part of speech is cohort?
- Cohort can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cohort?
- Cohort is pronounced /ˈkəʊ̯ˌhɔːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cohort?
- The plural of cohort is cohorts.
Words near cohort in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cohort (page history and authors); CoHort (page history and authors); cohort (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cohort (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cohort (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Cohort (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cohort (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cohort (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); cohort (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cohort (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cohort (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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