cohort
[ koh-hawrt ]
/ ˈkoʊ hɔrt /
noun
Origin of cohort
1475–85; < Middle French
cohorte < Latin
cohort- (stem of
cohors) farmyard, armed force (orig. from a particular place or camp), cohort, retinue, equivalent to
co-
co- +
hort- (akin to
hortus garden); replacing late Middle English
cohors < L nominative singular
usage note for cohort
A
cohort was originally one of the ten divisions of a legion in the Roman army, containing from 300 to 600 men. The most common use of
cohort today is in the sense “group” or “company”:
A cohort of hangers-on followed the singer down the corridor. In a development emphasizing the idea of companionship,
cohort has also come to mean a single companion, associate, or the like:
The senator strode into the room followed by his faithful cohort, his son-in-law.
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British Dictionary definitions for cohort
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
mainly US
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 Origin for cohort
C15: from Latin
cohors yard, company of soldiers; related to
hortus garden
Medical definitions for cohort
cohort
[ kō′hôrt′ ]
n.
A defined population group followed prospectively in an epidemiological study.