'Cohort' definitions:

Definition of 'cohort'

(from WordNet)
noun
A company of companions or supporters
noun
A band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)
noun
A group of people having approximately the same age [syn: age group, age bracket, cohort]

Definition of 'Cohort'

From: GCIDE
  • Cohort \Co"hort\, n. [L. cohors, prop. an inclosure: cf. F. cohorte. See Court, n.]
  • 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Any band or body of warriors. [1913 Webster]
  • With him the cohort bright Of watchful cherubim. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Bot.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'cohort'

From: GCIDE
  • Series \Se"ries\, n. [L. series, fr. serere, sertum, to join or bind together; cf. Gr. ??? to fasten, Skr. sarit thread. Cf. Assert, Desert a solitude, Exert, Insert, Seraglio.]
  • 1. A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events. [1913 Webster]
  • During some years his life a series of triumphs. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Biol.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 4. (Math.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; -- opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be
  • in series. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 6. (Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Synonyms of 'cohort'

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