CoHortnoun

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  slanglifestyleA fan of American author Colleen Hoover (born 1979).

  • To the CoHorts for your unrivaled support.
  • Fans — they call themselves “CoHorts” — get tattoos inspired by her work and vote her books to the top of reader polls.

cohortnoun/ˈkəʊ̯ˌhɔːt/

• 1

  A group of people supporting the same thing or person.

  • 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.
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  mathematicssciencesstatisticsA demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.

  • 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.
• 3

  historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsAny division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries).

  • Holonym: legion
  • Meronyms: maniple, century
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  An accomplice; abettor; associate.

  • He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts, as well as the source of the information.
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  Any band or body of warriors.

  • He ceas’d; and th’ Archangelic Power prepar’d / For ſwift deſcent, with him the Cohort bright / Of watchful Cherubim; […]
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  biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyA natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.

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  A colleague.

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  A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.

  • The students in my cohort for my organic chemistry class this year are not up to snuff. Last year's cohort scored much higher averages on the mid-term.
  • Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.

cohortverb/ˈkəʊ̯ˌhɔːt/

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  To associate with such a group.