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cohort
[ koh-hawrt ]
noun
- a group or company:
She has a cohort of admirers.
- a companion or associate.
- one of the ten divisions in an ancient Roman legion, numbering from 300 to 600 soldiers.
- any group of soldiers or warriors.
- an accomplice; abettor:
He got off with probation, but his cohorts got ten years apiece.
- a group of persons sharing a particular statistical or demographic characteristic:
the cohort of all children born in 1980.
- Biology. an individual in a population of the same species.
cohort
/ ˈkəʊhɔːt /
noun
- one of the ten units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion
- any band of warriors or associates
the cohorts of Satan
- an associate or follower
- biology a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a subclass (usually of mammals) or subfamily (of plants)
- statistics a group of people with a statistic in common, esp having been born in the same year
Word History and Origins
Origin of cohort1
Word History and Origins
Origin of cohort1
Example Sentences
If it turns to independents, it will find a very disparate cohort of TDs.
To support this future research, the team seeks long-term, open-access AID datasets that include a wide range of sensor measurements of possible factors and a diverse cohort of people with T1D.
The major strengths of this study include its large population-based cohort and long follow-up period.
This study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, was performed by a multi-year cohort of undergraduate researchers in the Penn State branch of the Pulsar Search Collaboratory student club.
In an independent patient cohort at the University of Vienna, the researchers obtained exactly the same outcome.
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More About Cohort
What does cohort mean?
A cohort is a group of people, as in The senator is traveling with a large cohort.
It can also refer to an associate or companion, as in I’m meeting up with some of my cohorts from my days as a salesperson.
Sometimes, cohort refers to an accomplice in crime or some other underhanded activity, as in The supervillain and his cohorts have robbed yet another bank.
When referring to a group, cohort can also be used in a more specific way to mean a group of people who share a common characteristic, come from the same demographic, or have been sorted into the same category. In statistical studies, it’s especially used to refer to people born in the same year or range of years, as in This study focuses on the cohort of people born between 1980 and 1985. In education, cohort is used to refer to a group of students, such as one consisting of students who started in the same year, or one of the multiple smaller groups that a class has been divided into.
In biology, cohort is used to refer to an individual animal or organism in a population of the same species.
Where does cohort come from?
The first records of the word cohort come from the late 1400s. It comes from the Latin cohors, meaning “yard,” “farmyard,” or “company of soldiers” (in reference to a place where soldiers camped). Cohors comes from a combination of co-, meaning “with” or “together,” and hort-, related to hortus, “garden.” (The same root is the basis of the word horticulture.)
The word cohort was originally used to refer to ancient Roman military units consisting of 300 to 600 soldiers. From there, its meaning became more general until it came to mean any group of people, especially those with something in common. (The notion of companionship between soldiers also contributed to its use to refer to a singular companion or associate.)
In education, the word cohort is used to refer to a group of students who have been grouped together based on some category, such as grade level or graduation year. In this context, cohort is often used when other words like class might not be entirely precise. For example, a class of students may be divided into multiple cohorts, such as when the teacher spends time teaching each one separately. Some universities sort students into cohorts based on the year they first enrolled in order to better track graduation rates. The term can also be used in other ways, such as to refer to a group of students in the same program who progress together by taking the same classes.
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What are some synonyms for cohort?
What are some words that share a root or word element with cohort?
What are some words that often get used in discussing cohort?
How is cohort used in real life?
The word cohort can be used in many contexts. When it refers to a group, it can be used in a general way or in more specific ways in the context of education and statistics.
I’m probably in the last age cohort that remembers when big celebrities wouldn’t do commercials in the US; they’d lend themselves to Asian/European campaigns that wouldn’t run here and cheapen their brand. It was the premise of “Lost in Translation!”
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 26, 2018
🚑 After launching our Paramedic Science degree three years ago to help tackle a worrying shortage of trained paramedics, we are delighted to say our first cohort of graduates are ready to help save lives across Yorkshire and beyond!
Find out more. ⬇️https://t.co/We8F9P33bC
— University of Hull (@UniOfHull) August 21, 2020
SHADOW SERVICE #1 is out today! The new comic from @cavanscott and his Cohorts (band name?) is packed with black magic, black ops, action, horror, twists, surprises, demons and talking rats! I've read it, and it rules.
Buy it here: https://t.co/gSkWScmCon pic.twitter.com/Bwh7VW4dUJ
— Tom Huddleston (@TomHuddleston_) August 19, 2020
Ok just got an email that my twins are in different cohorts for school. Rotating on a 6 day school week. How do we do this? I don’t even know what day of the week today is.
— YaminaC (@YaminaC) August 27, 2020
Try using cohort!
Which of the following words is a synonym of cohort?
A. associate
B. accomplice
C. group
D. all of the above
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