cohort
Other forms: cohorts
A cohort is a group of people who are around the same age, like a cohort of college students who have similar experiences and concerns.
The word cohort was originally used to describe a military unit in ancient Rome. You can see how this retains traces of the word’s origins: cohorts are bound together by similar circumstances just like a group of soldiers in a military unit. Some language purists insist that the word only describe a group, such as a cohort of accountants, but it can also refer to companions or supporters, such as “Susie and her cohorts.”
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a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)
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a company of companions or supporters
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type of:
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company
a social gathering of guests or companions
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company
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a group of people having approximately the same age
Vocabulary lists containing cohort
After escaping a Soviet military camp, U.S. Air Force pilot Joseph "Mack" Makatozi navigates the Siberian wilderness as a native tracker is on his trail.
This companion novel to Last Night at the Telegraph Club takes place fifty years later and follows eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West who spends the summer with her artistic grandmother in California.
In Kaleria, Nigeria, twelve-year-old Nnamdi is on a mission to avenge his father's death with the help of his best friend and newly acquired supernatural powers.
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