Cohort Definition

kōhôrt
cohorts
noun
cohorts
Any group or band.
Webster's New World
An ancient Roman military unit of 300-600 men, constituting one tenth of a legion.
Webster's New World
A generational group as defined in demographics, statistics, or market research.
American Heritage
An associate, colleague, or supporter.
One of the mayor's cohorts.
Webster's New World
A band of soldiers.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Cohort

Noun

Singular:
cohort
Plural:
cohorts

Origin of Cohort

  • Middle English from Old French cohorte from Latin cohors cohort- gher-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin cohors (stem cohort-), perhaps via Old French cohorte.

    From Wiktionary

Cohort Sentence Examples

  • Florus withdrew with all his troops, except one cohort, to Caesarea.

  • Claudius established here, as at Ostia, a cohort of vigiles as a fire-brigade.

  • Each cohort of our young are more technologically sophisticated than the previous year.

  • That compact was not, as has often been assumed, merely the means of assuring to Napoleon the mastery of the continent and the control of a cohort of kings.

  • Although the Uredineae clearly lead on to the Basidiomycetes, yet owing to their retaining in many cases definite traces of sexual organs they are clearly a more primitive group. Their marked parasitic habit also separates them off, so that they are best included with the Basidiomycetes in a larger cohort which may be called Basidiales.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOH

Words Ending With

TRTORT

Unscrambles

cohort

Words Starting With C and Ending With T

Starts With C & Ends With TStarts With CO & Ends With TStarts With C & Ends With RT

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With C6 Letter Words Ending With T