请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 cohort
释义

cohortn.

Brit. /ˈkəʊhɔːt/, U.S. /ˈkoʊˌhɔrt/
Etymology: < French cohorte, < Latin cohort-em (cohors ) court, enclosure, company of soldiers, tenth part of a legion; < co- together + hort- , found also in hortus , cognate with Greek χόρτος , English garth , gard-en , from a root meaning ‘to enclose’: see garden n. The living descendant of the Latin word in French is court , English court n.1
1. Roman History. A body of infantry in the Roman army, of which there were ten in a legion, each consisting of from 300 to 600 men; also applied to auxiliary troops of the same strength, and (later) to bodies of cavalry.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > legion > Roman > cohort
cohort1489
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. v. 99 A cohorte of Macedonyens.
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. x. 58 Foure hundred horse, deuided into three cohorts or troupes.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 41 Marcellinus..advanced.. with the select cohorts, which were considered as the hope and strength of the army.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xvii. 274 Sabinus..had..a few cohorts lately raised in Italy.
2. transferred.
a. A similar division of other armies.
ΚΠ
1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon V. iii. 64 The Legion of Honour was to consist of..fifteen Cohorts.
b. A band of warriors in general.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > [noun]
trumec893
wic897
ferredc1200
knight-weredc1275
preyc1300
legion?1316
companyc1325
punyec1330
virtuec1350
fellowshipc1380
knightheada1382
knighthooda1382
strengtha1382
sop?a1400
strengh?a1400
tropelc1425
armyc1450
framec1450
preparing1497
armourya1500
cohortc1500
cohortationc1500
cateran?a1513
venlin1541
troop1545
guidon1560
crew1570
preparation1573
esquadron1579
bodya1616
armada1654
expedition1693
armament1698
host1807
war-party1921
c1500 Melusine (1895) 97 The kinge made to be take alle them of hys cohorte or company.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 127 The Cohort bright Of watchful Cherubim. View more context for this quotation
1815 Ld. Byron Destr. Sennacherib i, in Hebrew Melodies 46 The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist iii. § i. 134 Jehoiada gained his victory over Athaliah with a cohort of priests.
3. figurative.
a. A company, band; esp. of persons united in defence of a common cause.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun]
ferec975
flockOE
gingc1175
rout?c1225
companyc1300
fellowshipc1300
covinc1330
eschelec1330
tripc1330
fellowred1340
choira1382
head1381
glub1382
partya1387
peoplec1390
conventc1426
an abominable of monksa1450
body1453
carol1483
band1490
compernagea1500
consorce1512
congregationa1530
corporationa1535
corpse1534
chore1572
society1572
crew1578
string1579
consort1584
troop1584
tribe1609
squadron1617
bunch1622
core1622
lag1624
studa1625
brigadea1649
platoon1711
cohort1719
lot1725
corps1754
loo1764
squad1786
brotherhood1820
companionhood1825
troupe1825
crowd1840
companionship1842
group1845
that ilk1845
set-out1854
layout1869
confraternity1872
show1901
crush1904
we1927
familia1933
shower1936
1719 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 17 Mar. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) II. 196 I was apt to confound my acquaintance and my friends together. I had a numerous cohort of the latter.
1858 J. M. Neale tr. Rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix 33 The cohort of the Fathers Who kept the Faith below.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. xvi. 454 A small cohort of social regenerators.
b. In demography, a group of persons having a common statistical characteristic, esp. that of being born in the same year. Also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > science of mankind > [noun] > study of populations > group having common characteristics
year group1897
cohort1944
the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > demographics > group of people within
cohort1944
demographic1972
demo1980
1944 H. P. Fairchild Dict. Sociol. 45/2 Cohort (demographical usage), a group of persons starting life together. Thus, hypothetical cohorts are established in the construction of life tables.
1947 P. K. Whelpton in Proc. Internat. Statist. Conf. (Washington) III. B. 632 This discussion will..carry the analysis of fertility trends a step further..by considering cohorts of women (i.e. women grouped by date of birth), and by classifying the births to each cohort.
1954 P. K. Whelpton (title) Cohort fertility.
1959 Listener 19 Nov. 865/1 It [sc. secular analysis] must be reinforced by analysis of a different style: one which takes all the people born in one year or married in one year and follows them through their lives. Analysis of this kind is called ‘cohort analysis’.
1962 Lancet 8 Dec. 1213/1 The number of possible long-stay patients produced by the 1954 cohort of admissions was estimated as 7453.
4. Zoology and Botany. In some classifications, a large group superior to a natural order, but of no fixed grade; in Botany usually = alliance n. 4c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > group higher than order or of no fixed grade
legion1815
alliance1835
cohort1839
1839 J. Lindley School Bot. iv. 25 No idea of the nature or limits of these cohorts can be formed from a consideration of the Flora of Europe alone.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. ix. §1. 326 Cohort..is becoming established for a grade next above that of order.
5. An assistant, colleague, accomplice. Chiefly U.S.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] > accomplice
complice1475
fedariea1616
complier1619
correspondent1639
right bower1829
cohort1952
1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe xii. 276 The old poet had left, accompanied by two of his cohorts.
1957 B. Evans & C. Evans Dict. Contemp. Amer. Usage 99/1 Banting [was] assisted by his young cohort, Dr. Charles H. Best. The culprit and his three cohorts quickly confessed.
1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1059/2 The new American vulgarism of ‘cohort’ meaning ‘partner’.
1970 Sunday Times 28 June 6/5 The impending trial of Bobby Seale, chairman of the Black Panther movement, and his eight cohorts in New Haven.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cohortv.

/kəʊˈhɔːt/
Etymology: < Latin cohortāri, < co- (com-) + hortāri.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To exhort.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate > exhort
movea1382
enhort1382
exhortc1475
cohort1481
adhorta1500
urge1565
engage1647
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. v. 28 Thus wil the deuil cohorte [or ? coherte] them.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 453 The Lard of Tullybarne and uther Noble men, who cohorted thame to quyetness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
<
n.1489v.1481
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/25 10:21:59