cohort
/ˈkoʊ̯ˌhɔɹt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.40 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
noun
A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
noun
Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries).
noun
An accomplice; abettor; associate.
noun
A colleague.
noun
A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.
Example Sentences
- "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 lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness."
- "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."
- "“Zillennials refer to a small cohort born between the early 1990s and the early 2000s,” said Deborah Carr, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science at Boston University. “They’re on the cusp of Gen Z and millennial, thus the mash-up label of zillennial.”"
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.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵʰer-, cohors, -, cohorte
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkoʊ̯ˌhɔɹt/
- British English: /ˈkəʊ̯ˌhɔːt/