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{{also|CoHort}}
==English==
{{was wotd|2011|September|1}}
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===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*ǵʰer-|id=enclose}}
From {{der|en|la|cohors}} (stem {{m|la||cohort-}}); borrowed into {{der|en|ang|-}} as {{m|ang|coorta}}, but reintroduced into {{inh|en|enm|-}} as {{m|enm|cōhort}} and {{m|enm|chōors}} via {{der|en|fro|cohorte}}. {{doublet|en|court}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈkəʊ.hɔː(ɹ)t/|a=UK}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈkoʊ̯.hɔɹt/|a=US}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-cohort.ogg|a=US}}
* {{audio|en|en-au-cohort.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|əʊhɔː(ɹ)t|oʊhɔɹt|s=2}}
* {{hyphenation|en|co|hort}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# A [[group]] of people [[support]]ing the same thing or person.
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1887|month=July|author={{w|George Romanes|George John Romanes}}|title=[[s:Popular Science Monthly/Volume 31/July 1887/Mental Differences of Men and Women|Mental Differences of Men and Women]]|journal=w:Popular Science Monthly|volume=31
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1916|author=w:James Joyce|title=[[s:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man/Chapter 3|A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]|chapter=III|passage=A sin, an instant of rebellious pride of the intellect, made Lucifer and a third part of the '''cohort''' of angels fall from their glory.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1919|author=w:Albert Payson Terhune|title=[[s:Lad, A Dog/Chapter VI|Lad: A Dog]]|chapter=VI|publisher=Lost!
|passage=A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring '''cohort''' surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.}}
# {{lb|en|statistics}} A [[demographic]] [[grouping]] of [[people]], especially those in a [[defined]] [[age]] group, or having a common characteristic.
#: {{ux|en|The 18-24 '''cohort''' shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.}}
# {{lb|en|historical|Ancient Rome|military}} Any [[division]] of a [[Roman]] [[legion]], normally of about 500 or 600 [[men]] (equalling about six [[century|centuries]]).
#: ''Three '''cohorts''' of men were assigned to the region.''
#: {{hol|en|legion}}
#: {{mer|en|maniple|century}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1900|author=[[w:Cicero|Marcus Tullius Cicero]]|translator={{w|Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh|Evelyn Shuckburgh}}|title=[[s:Letters to Atticus/5.20|Letters to Atticus]]|section=5.20
|passage=But he lost the whole of his first '''cohort''' and the centurion of the first line, a man of high rank in his own class, Asinius Dento, and the other centurions of the same '''cohort''', as well as a military tribune, Sext. Lucilius, son of T. Gavius Caepio, a man of wealth, and high position.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1910|author=''{{w|Arthur Conan Doyle}}''|title=s:The Last of the Legions|passage=But here it is as clear as words can make it: 'Bring every man of the Legions by forced marches to the help of the Empire. Leave not a '''cohort''' in Britain.' These are my orders.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1913|title=[[s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Cornelius|Cornelius]]|journal=w:Catholic Encyclopedia
|passage=The '''cohort''' in which he was centurion was probably the ''Cohors II Italica civium Romanorum'', which a recently discovered inscription proves to have been stationed in Syria before A.D. 69.}}
# An [[accomplice]]; [[abettor]]; [[associate]].
#: {{ux|en|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.}}
# Any [[band]] or [[body]] of [[warrior]]s.
#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|text=With him the '''cohort''' bright / Of watchful cherubim.|year=1873}}
# {{lb|en|taxonomy}} A [[natural]] [[group]] of [[order]]s of [[organism]]s, less [[comprehensive]] than a [[class]].
# A [[colleague]].
# A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.
#: {{ux|en|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.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2023 March 8|author=Neil Robertson|title=Tackling the skills shortage|journal=RAIL|issue=978|page=33|text=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.}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|cohortmate|intercohort|intracohort|metacohort|multicohort
|cohort study
|infracohort|cohort effect
|subcohort
|supercohort|cohort plural
}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|group of people supporting the same thing or person}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|cohort|f}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|kohorta|f}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|kohorto}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|kohort}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|joukko}}
* German: {{t+|de|Klasse|f}}, {{t+|de|Gruppe|f}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|истомисле́ници|m-p}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kolektyw|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|seguidores|m-p}}, {{t|pt|seguidoras|f-p}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|коллекти́в|m}}, {{t+|ru|гру́ппа|f}}, {{t+|ru|компа́ния|f}}, {{t+|ru|кого́рта|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|kohorta|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|seguidor|alt=seguidores|m-p}}, {{t|es|cohorte|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|demographic grouping of people}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|cohort|f}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|kohort}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kohortti}}
* French: {{t+|fr|cohorte}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|კოჰორტა}}
* German: {{t+|de|Kohorte|f}}, {{t+|de|Klasse|f}}, {{t+|de|Kategorie|f}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|kohor}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|coorte}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|шоғырланым}}, {{t|kk|шоғартоп}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kohorta|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|coorte}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|кого́рта|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|kohorta|f}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|kohorta|f}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|cohorte|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|kohort|c}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|division of Roman legion}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|kohorte}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|каго́рта|f}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|cohort|f}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|kohorta|f}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|kohorto}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|kohort}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kohortti}}
* German: {{t+|de|Kohorte|f}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|coorte}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|ко́хорт|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|kohorta|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|coorte|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|кого́рта|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|kohorta|f}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|kohorta|f}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|cohorte}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|кого́рта|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|accomplice}}

{{trans-see|associate}}

{{trans-see|abettor}}

{{trans-see|colleague}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# To [[associate]] with such a group

===See also===
* {{l|en|cahoots}}

===References===
* {{R:Etymonline}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=choort|chroot|rootch|trocho-}}

{{C|en|Collectives|People}}

==Catalan==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|ca|la|cohors}}. {{doublet|ca|cort}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{ca-IPA|ò}}

===Noun===
{{ca-noun|f}}

# {{l|en|cohort}} {{gloss|group of people supporting the same thing}}
# {{l|en|cohort}} {{gloss|demographic grouping of people}}
# {{l|en|cohort}} {{gloss|division of a Roman legion}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:ca:IEC2}}

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