cohort

C2+ Topic:General Vocabulary

US /ˈkoʊhɔrt/ UK /ˈkəʊhɔːt/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a group sharing a common feature, especially a statistical or age band

Researchers tracked the 1990 birth cohort for two decades.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a group sharing a common... group band contingent company faction set retinue comrade

Word family

Related forms courtcohortative

Simplified etymology

Cohort entered English in the late Middle Ages from Latin cohors, which had the senses of both a courtyard and a retinue. It originally denoted one tenth of a Roman legion.

Etymology

From Latin cohors (genitive cohortis) 'enclosure, company of soldiers, division of an army', from co- 'together' + a root meaning 'enclosed yard' (related to hortus 'garden').

cohors Latin hortus Latin

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General Vocabulary

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# cohort

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈkoʊhɔrt/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈkəʊhɔːt/

## Meanings
1. a group sharing a common feature, especially a statistical or age band

## Examples
- Researchers tracked the 1990 birth cohort for two decades.

## Synonyms
- group
- band
- contingent
- company
- faction
- set
- retinue
- comrade

## Related Forms
- court
- cohortative

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: cohors
- Root: hortus

## Etymology
From Latin cohors (genitive cohortis) 'enclosure, company of soldiers, division of an army', from co- 'together' + a root meaning 'enclosed yard' (related to hortus 'garden').

## AI Etymology
Cohort comes from Latin cohors (genitive cohortis) 'enclosure, company of soldiers, division of an army', from co- 'together' + a root meaning 'enclosed yard' (related to hortus 'garden'). The historical trail runs through cohors in Latin and hortus in Latin. Morphologically, cohort is transparent: it draws on Latin cohors (genitive cohortis) 'enclosure, company of soldiers, division of an army', from co- 'together' + a root meaning 'enclosed yard' (related to hortus 'garden'). Used as a noun, cohort now means "a group sharing a common feature, especially a statistical or age band", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in related forms such as court and cohortative. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

## Topics
- General Vocabulary

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