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Antonyms for cohort

Grammar : Noun
Spell : koh-hawrt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkoʊ hɔrt

Definition of cohort

Origin :
  • early 15c., "company of soldiers," from Middle French cohorte (14c.) and directly from Latin cohortem (nominative cohors) "enclosure," meaning extended to "infantry company" in Roman army (a tenth part of a legion) through notion of "enclosed group, retinue," from com- "with" (see co-) + root akin to hortus "garden," from PIE *ghr-ti-, from root *gher- "to grasp, enclose" (see yard (n.1)). Sense of "accomplice" is first recorded 1952, American English, from meaning "group united in common cause" (1719).
  • noun partner in activity
Example sentences :
  • The cohort on duty was drawn up under arms at the palace gates.
  • Extract from : « Nero » by Jacob Abbott
  • I must,” replied Marcus; “but it will be dreadful for the first cohort which leads.
  • Extract from : « Marcus: the Young Centurion » by George Manville Fenn
  • When Uncle Si and his cohort got through with them they were as billowy as the surface of the ocean.
  • Extract from : « The House » by Eugene Field
  • Nevertheless, he disregarded the "cohort," and paid the money into the treasury.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Cicero » by Anthony Trollope
  • Certainly, if the butchers of the Schwarzburg are to form my cohort.
  • Extract from : « A Son of the Immortals » by Louis Tracy
  • Soon he saw an acquaintance, a leader of a cohort, and nodded to him.
  • Extract from : « Quo Vadis » by Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • These credentials I have collected from a cohort of past admirers and they can be vouched for.
  • Extract from : « The Career of Katherine Bush » by Elinor Glyn
  • But the ranks of their cohort will be thin when the remnant reacheth the fort.
  • Extract from : « Ulric the Jarl » by William O. Stoddard
  • Helmets and standards and the shields of a cohort of a legion.
  • Extract from : « Ulric the Jarl » by William O. Stoddard
  • I was as deep a sinner as any man in the cohort, and no man can be much worse than that.
  • Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by Frederic W. Farrar

Synonyms for cohort

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