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Definition: Cohort |
CohortNoun1. A company of companions or supporters. 2. A band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion). 3. A group people having approximately the same age. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cohort" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | A group of trees regenerating and establishing after a single disturbance whether major(stand replacement)or minor(gap). The age range within a cohort may vary from one year to several decades, depending on how long trees continue invading until the growing space is occupied and additional trees are excluded. Source: European Union. (references) |
Labor | A cohort in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) program is a group of people, defined by age, that make up a particular study. For example, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) cohort is made up of people born between January 1, 1957, and December 31, 1964. (references) |
Statistics | A group of individuals or couples who experience the same event during a specified period. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CohortSynonyms: age bracket (n), age group (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cohort |
| Specialty definitions using "cohort": Augustus band ♦ Birth cohort ♦ Cohort Effect ♦ Epidemiologic Studies ♦ Italian band ♦ Julius ♦ Marriage cohort ♦ Observational study, Odds Ratio ♦ Prospective study ♦ Wild Women. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cohort": Primipilar. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cohort" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (cohort). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Systematic research on caries Risk Assessment is needed using population-based cohort techniques. (references) | |
The data from large CAHD cohort studies initiated 20 to 30 years ago should be identified and archived. (references) | ||
The relationship of obesity to the incidence of CAHD has been studied in a large number of cohort studies. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cohort" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.39% of the time. "Cohort" is used about 310 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.39% | 305 | 16,573 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.97% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.32% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.32% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 310 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cohort": Cohort Effect ♦ Cohort Studies. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "cohort": pre-cohort. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
double cohort | 30 |
cohort | 27 |
cohort study | 15 |
bradley cohort | 7 |
captain cohort hook | 5 |
cohort teller | 4 |
cohort default rate | 4 |
cohort effect | 3 |
chronic cohort insufficiency renal | 3 |
cohort definition | 3 |
birth cohort | 2 |
cohort definition study | 2 |
cohort double ontario | 2 |
black cohort | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cohort"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njësi i një legjioni, kohortë, hordhi (horde, regiment), grup (array, batch, body, bracket, camp, clutch, colony, confederate, coterie, crowd, gang, group, groupment, lot, parcel, party, phalanx, platoon, squad, tally, team, troop, unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جماعة (association, band, body, clan, cluster, company, connection, connexion, corporation, drove, gaggle, gang, group, horde, order, troupe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | римска кохорта, група (assortment, band, bandwagon, batch, body, category, clan, cluster, crowd, gang, group, knot, party, series, set, society, squad, stirps, suite, troop), войскова част (guard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 一队人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kohorta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cohort, kohorte, kohort, aldersklasse (age-group), aldersgruppe (age-group). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cohorte, cohort, leeftijdsklasse (age-group), leeftijdsgroep (age-group), kohorte, kohort. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیرو (Disciple, Henchman, Pursuant, Satellite), همکار (Cooperator, Counterpart, Teammate), گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Company, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Flock, Gang, Group, Kind, Outfit, Pack, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team, Throng), طرفدار (Advocate, Partial, Partisan, Party, Proponent, Votary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kohortti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cohorte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kohorte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλάση (class, rank), κοόρτη, σώμα στρατού (army corps), λόχοσ στρατού, ομάδα πληθυσμού, ομάδα ηλικιών (age-group), ομάδα ατόμων που έζησαν μαζί ένα γεγονός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sereg (army, bevy, covey, crowd, flock, green machine, horde, nest, troop), hadsereg (army, field army, junior service, military), csapat (band, bevy, company, covey, flock, gang, group, party, side, skein, team, troop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coorte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ぐうぐう寝ちゃう (accomplice, approximately, completely exhausted, dead tired, enervated, fast, fast asleep, firmly, flabby, flexible, hanging around, hesitatingly, indecisiveness, limp, lolling, more, much, noticeably, Okinawan fortress, pulpy, remarkably, senseless, sloppy, slowly, soft, soppy, sound asleep, sound of rinsing one's mouth, splat!, steadily, tardily, tired, to be unsteady, to fall sound asleep, to reel, to shake, to stray from the right path, turning round and round), コペルニクス的転回 (a commercial, COBOL, coma, command, command module, commando, commercial art, commercial base, commercial design, commercial film, commercial jingle, commercial message, commercial package, commercial paper, commercial song, commercialism, Common Business Oriented Language, Copernican revolution, copolymer, frame in a film or video). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぐる (accomplice), コホート . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheshey (colleague, companion, consort, fellow, husband, match, mate, partner, spouse), sheshaght chaggee (army, host). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ohortcay grupo (bevy, brood, bunch, collection, committee, crew, crowd, denomination, flock, gang, group, heap, herd, junta, junto, plump, series, team, tribe, troop, troupe). (various references) cohortã (band, crew, host), ceatã (band, drove, flock, gang, group, knot, order, pack, ring, rout, tribe, troop), grup (band, bundle, clump, cluster, corps, Covey, crowd, faction, group, knot, pack, parcel, set). (various references) когорта. (various references) ortak (associate, bedfellow, buddy buddy, consort, fellow, mac, partner, yokefellow, yokemate), kohorta, drug (buddy, companion, comrade, friend, pal). (various references) cohorte. (various references) kohort. (various references) เพื่อนร่วมงาน (sidekick). (various references) topluluk (army, colony, community, company, corps, coterie, crowd, ensemble, gathering, group, herd, hive, knot, party, push, set, society, troop), lejyonun onda biri, kohort, kalabalık (army, assemblage, concourse, congested, congestion, cram, crop, crowd, crowded, crush, drove, flock, gaggle, gathering, hive, horde, host, huddle, legion, mob, multitude, multitudinous, populous, press, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, squash, throng, thronged, wilderness). (various references) когорта. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cohors. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cohort": cohorts. (additional references) | |
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"Cohort" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cahort, cahot, choorta, choot, chort, cocorp, Coehorn, cohart, cohert, cohork, Cohorn, cohors, cohorte, Conholt, conort, coort, covort, Jomhori. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cohort" (pronounced kō"hôrt) |
| 3 | -ô r t | export. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: ortho, rotch, thoro, torch. | |
-2 letters: coho, coot, hoot, root, roto, thro, torc, toro. | |
-3 letters: coo, cor, cot, hot, oho, ooh, oot, orc, ort, rho, roc, rot, tho, too, tor. | |
-4 letters: ho, oh, or, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: cheroot, cohorts, torchon. | |
+2 letters: cheroots, coauthor, orthicon, orthotic, scrootch, torchons, trochoid. | |
+3 letters: blowtorch, chlorotic, coauthors, crapshoot, dropcloth, ectomorph, notochord, ochlocrat, octothorp, orthicons, orthoepic, orthotics, torchwood, trochoids. | |
+4 letters: broadcloth, cartoonish, coauthored, courthouse, crapshoots, ctenophore, cytochrome, doctorship, dropcloths, ectomorphs, floorcloth, homoerotic, notochords, ochlocrats, octahedron, octothorps, orthoclase, orthopedic, scrootched, scrootches, switcheroo, thrombotic, tocopherol, topnotcher, torchwoods, trichology, trichotomy, trochoidal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 68 6F 72 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .... --- .-. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o h o r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0068 006F 0072 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)378174818486 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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