Definitions for cohort

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cohort co·hort

Spelling: [koh-hawrt]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ hɔrt/

Cohort is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in cohort (choort).

Definitions for cohort

noun

1. a group or company:
2. a companion or associate.
3. one of the ten divisions in an ancient Roman legion, numbering from 300 to 600 soldiers.
4. any group of soldiers or warriors.
5. an accomplice; abettor:
6. a group of persons sharing a particular statistical or demographic characteristic:
7. Biology. an individual in a population of the same species.

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- + ho

Examples for cohort

I went to a fairly prestigious Midwestern university, and I entered the program with a cohort of 14 first-year grad students.

When Uncle Si and his cohort got through with them they were as billowy as the surface of the ocean.

Among an older, Baby Boomer cohort (ages 55 to 69) only 16 percent ever attended such full-time Jewish educational institutions.

All of which makes me wonder why Lindsey Graham and his cohort were so afraid the guy would clam up.

Good luck finding that cohort of “naïve” participants, noble goal though that it is.

The cohort on duty was drawn up under arms at the palace gates.

Certainly, if the butchers of the Schwarzburg are to form my cohort.

I must,” replied Marcus; “but it will be dreadful for the first cohort which leads.

Nevertheless, he disregarded the "cohort," and paid the money into the treasury.

Here was a cohort, after all, that grew up thinking that it could, and would, change the world.