What does cohort mean?

Definitions for cohort
ˈkoʊ hɔrtco·hort

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cohortnoun

    a company of companions or supporters

  2. cohortnoun

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

  3. age group, age bracket, cohortnoun

    a group of people having approximately the same age

Wiktionary

  1. cohortnoun

    A group of people supporting the same thing or person.

  2. cohortnoun

    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.

  3. cohortnoun

    Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.

    Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.

  4. cohortnoun

    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. cohortnoun

    Any band or body of warriors.

  6. cohortnoun

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

  7. cohortnoun

    A colleague.

  8. Etymology: From cohors (stem cohort-), perhaps via cohorte.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Cohortnoun

    Etymology: cohors, Latin.

    The Romans levied as many cohorts, companies, and ensigns from hence as from any of their provinces. William Camden.

    Th’ arch-angelic pow’r prepar’d
    For swift descent; with him the cohort bright
    Of watchful cherubim. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xi. l. 127.

    Here Churchill, not so prompt
    To vaunt as fight, his hardy cohorts join’d
    With Eugene. John Philips, Blenheim.

ChatGPT

  1. cohort

    A cohort is a group of individuals who share a common characteristic or experience within a defined period. This term is commonly used in research, demographics, and statistics to refer to individuals who are grouped together for the purpose of a study. Cohorts can be identified or classified based on various factors such as age, gender, nationality, or certain life events like graduation year or year of marriage.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cohortnoun

    a body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion

  2. Cohortnoun

    any band or body of warriors

  3. Cohortnoun

    a natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class

  4. Etymology: [L. cohors, prop. an inclosure: cf. F. cohorte. See Court, n.]

Wikidata

  1. Cohort

    A cohort was the basic tactical unit of a Roman legion during the Second Punic War 218 to 201 BC or following the reforms of Gaius Marius in 107 BC.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cohort

    kō′hort, n. among the Romans, a body of soldiers from 300 to 600 in number, forming a tenth part of a legion: a band of armed men: any band of men. [Fr.,—L. cohors, an enclosed place, a multitude enclosed, a company of soldiers.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. cohort

    A division of the ancient Roman armies, consisting of about 600 men, divided into centuries. It was the tenth part of a legion, and its number, consequently, was under the same fluctuation as that of the legions. In the time of the empire the cohort often amounted to 1000 men.

Editors Contribution

  1. COHORT

    "a person or a group of people who support a particular person, usually a leader:COMPANION, COLLEAGUE;BAND, GROUP;a group of individuals having a statistical factor (such as age or class membership) in common in a demographic study;associate, companion, compatriot, compeer, comrade, crony, fellow, hobnobber, mate, running mate; a friend or supporter, especially of someone you do not like;One who supports and adheres to another:adherent, disciple, follower,minion, partisan, satellite, supporter.a group of people that share one or more characteristics:Groups of people with shared interests or aims association,commission,organization,a group or company;partner,associate,mate,assistant,follower,comrade,protagonist,accomplice,sidekick (slang),henchman or woman or person,myrmidon,any group of soldiers or warriors,an accomplice,abettor;One who is united in a relationship with another:affiliate, ally, associate, colleague, confederate, copartner, fellow, partner. a group of people having approximately the same age:age bracket, age group;

    The new measures focus on a bottleneck instead: a cohort ofAmerican-based chip-equipment firms whose products lack substitutes.


    Submitted by KTTHOOL on July 2, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cohort in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cohort in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of cohort in a Sentence

  1. Joan Walsh:

    But you know what’s also sad to me is that this cohort, I wrote about my Irish Catholic working class family, this cohort used to be so patriotic, and so much America—love it or leave it, things that I didn’t like about it, but that was just so stirred by this country’s—what they perceived as its values and much of the same cohort is with Donald Trump—dismissing the Russia allegations, doing nothing to support the people who are trying to get answers, and I find this kind of relative, this relativity about well, you know, if my guy doesn’t think it’s important or if my guy might even be threatened by it, then I don’t care either, that is not patriotism. That is something else entirely.

  2. Eran Elinav:

    Measuring such a large cohort without any prejudice really enlightened us on how inaccurate we all were about one of the most basic concepts of our existence, which is what we eat and how we integrate nutrition into our daily life, in contrast to our current practices, tailoring diets to the individual may allow us to utilize nutrition as means of controlling elevated blood sugar levels and its associated medical conditions.

  3. Daniel Griffin:

    The smallest version of this is two families who decide to form a slightly enlarged social cohort.

  4. Judith Weissman:

    What's been most surprising isn't necessarily that the overall numbers have increased but that the cohort that is most impacted has changed, there's a newfound high-risk group: middle-aged adults; that's adults from about the age of 45 to 59 in the US, who previously had not been thought to be at high risk for mental illness or suicide, and now we're finding that they are.

  5. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif:

    Because I want to do emergency medicine, and they only take anywhere between five and six students at McGill per year, it would put too much stress on the rest of the cohort, we'll find a way.

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