cohort
noun
- taxonomic rank
- a group of individuals having a statistical factor (such as age or class membership) in common in a demographic or other study
- companion, colleague
- band, group
- one of 10 divisions of an ancient Roman legion
- a group of warriors or soldiers
- a group of people who work through a program together with similar start and end times
- a group of students who work through a degree program together with similar start and end times
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ̯ˌhɔːt/ / [ˈkʰəʊ̯ˌhɔːt] / /ˈkoʊ̯ˌhɔɹt/
noun
Etymology: 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.
- 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.”
“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.”
- 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.”
- 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; […]”
- 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.”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- To associate with such a group.