cohort

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a company of companions or supporters
  2. noun a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)
  3. noun a group of people having approximately the same age

Etymology

From Latin cohors (stem cohort-); borrowed into Old English as coorta, but reintroduced into Middle English as cōhort and chōors via Old French cohorte. Doublet of court.

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