Cohort Meaning
/ˈkəʊ̯ˌhɔːt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA group of people supporting the same thing or person.
nounA demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
Sentence Examples
Surprise, surprise: it's Tom and his cohort.
Tom belonged to a small cohort of five people.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Each ____ of recruits completed the same rigorous training program.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The medical researchers followed a ____ of patients over a twenty-year period to study the disease.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1887 July, George John Romanes, “Mental Differences of Men and Women”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 31:
"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."
— 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 154:
"A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness."
— 1919, Albert Payson Terhune, chapter VI, in Lad: A Dog, Lost!:
"The elderly are market segments, by generations or microgenerations within age cohorts or by historical experience as personality types."
— 2002, Merry White, Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval, page 169:
"“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.”"
— 2023 May 10, Terry Ward, “Zillennials: The newest micro-generation has a name”, in CNN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Each ____ of recruits completed the same rigorous training program.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The medical researchers followed a ____ of patients over a twenty-year period to study the disease.