Definizione monolingua

cohort

cohort (plural cohorts)

1. A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
   • 1887 July, George John Romanes, Mental Differences of Men and Women, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 31,

     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.

   • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter III,

     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.

   • 1919, Albert Payson Terhune, Lad: A Dog, Chapter VI: Lost!,

     A lost dog??—?Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.

2. (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.

   The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.

3. (military, history) Any division of a Roman legion; normally of about 500 men.

   Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.

   • 1900, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Evelyn Shuckburgh (translator), Letters to Atticus, 5.20,

     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.

   • 1910, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Last of the Legions,

     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.

   • 1913, Cornelius, article in Catholic Encyclopedia,

     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.

4. An accomplice; abettor; associate.

   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.

5. A colleague.

Definizione dizionario cohort

	coorte
	division of Roman legion
	Any division of a Roman legion; normally of about 500 men.

Altri significati:

(military, history) Any division of a Roman legion; normally of about 500 men.

A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group.

(statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group.

demographic grouping of people

group of people supporting the same thing or person

A colleague.

A group of people supporting the same thing or person.

An accomplice; abettor; associate.