ABSTRACT
co·hort (khttps://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315820958/7edb0ca9-96b3-4c91-86e6-7c62297b06fc/content/fig3_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> hôrt), n. 1. a group or company: She has a cohort of admirers. 2. a companion or associate. 3. one of the ten divisions in an ancient Roman legion, numbering from 300 to 600 soldiers. 4. any group of soldiers or warriors. 5. an accomplice; abettor: he got off with probation, but his cohorts got ten years apiece. 6 a group of persons sharing a particular statistical or demographic characteristic: thecohortof all children born in 1980. 7. Biol. An individual in a population of the same species. [1475–85; < MF cohorte <. L cohort- (s. of cohors) farmyard, armed force (orig. from a particular place or camp), cohort, retinue, equiv. to co-co- + hort. (akin to hortus garden); r. late ME cohors < L nom. sing.]
