cohort
Americannoun
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a group or company.
She has a cohort of admirers.
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a companion or associate.
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one of the ten divisions in an ancient Roman legion, numbering from 300 to 600 soldiers.
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any group of soldiers or warriors.
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an accomplice; abettor.
He got off with probation, but his cohorts got ten years apiece.
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a group of persons sharing a particular statistical or demographic characteristic.
the cohort of all children born in 1980.
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Biology. an individual in a population of the same species.
noun
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one of the ten units of between 300 and 600 men in an ancient Roman Legion
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any band of warriors or associates
the cohorts of Satan
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an associate or follower
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biology a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a subclass (usually of mammals) or subfamily (of plants)
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statistics a group of people with a statistic in common, esp having been born in the same year
Usage
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.
Etymology
Origin of cohort
First recorded in 1475–85; from Middle French cohorte, from Latin cohort- (stem of cohors ) “farmyard, armed force (originally, from a particular place or camp), cohort, retinue,” equivalent to co- “with, together” + hort- (akin to hortus “garden”); replacing late Middle English cohors, from Latin; co-, com-
Example Sentences
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And those habits can be especially harmful for the many people in this unevenly wealthy cohort who are financially vulnerable.
From MarketWatch
By my 30s, I was comfortably situated in yet another trusted cohort, supporting my activist friends on things we all cared about: reproductive rights, wrongful convictions, freedom for Palestine.
The rising cohorts of women’s-rights campaigners bore less of an imprint of the orthodox Protestantism than those of Stanton’s generation and had no interest in editing the Bible.
Flutter said that while it doesn’t believe the growth of prediction markets are a significant driver of its slowing customer and handle growth, they are attracting additional “entertainment-first recreational customer cohorts.”
The paper, titled "The role of phenylalanine and tyrosine in longevity: a cohort and Mendelian randomization study," examined whether levels of these nutrients in the blood are connected to lifespan.
From Science Daily
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