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Cohort vs Consort - What's the difference?

cohort | consort |

As nouns the difference between cohort and consort

is that cohort is a group of people supporting the same thing or person while consort is the spouse of a monarch.

As a verb consort is

to associate or keep company.

As a proper noun Consort is

a village in Alberta, Canada.

cohort

English

(wikipedia cohort)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
  • * 1887 July, (w), '', 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), , 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), , 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.
  • (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.
  • (military, history) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.
    • Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.
  • * 1900 , , 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)'', '' ,
    • 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 , '', 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.
  • 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.
  • Any band or body of warriors.
  • * 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost
    • With him the cohort bright / Of watchful cherubim.
  • (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
  • A colleague.

    • consort

    English

    Noun

  • The spouse of a monarch.
  • A husband, wife, companion or partner.
  • * Dryden
    • He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, / Well pleased to want a consort of his bed.
  • * Thackeray
    • The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere.
  • * Darwin
    • the snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort
  • A ship accompanying another.
  • (uncountable) Association or partnership.
  • * Atterbury
    • Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different.
  • A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
  • * Spenser
    • In one consort there sat / Cruel revenge and rancorous despite, / Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate.
  • * Herbert
    • Lord, place me in thy consort .
  • (obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
  • * Spenser
    • To make a sad consort , / Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs.
    (Milton)

    Synonyms

    * companion, escort * (sense) association, partnership * (group of musicians) band, group

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To associate or keep company.
  • * 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 457,
    • Being itself inferior and consorting with an inferior faculty it begets inferior offspring.
  • To be in agreement.
  • To associate or unite in company with.
  • * Dryden
    • Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee?

    Synonyms

    * (associate or keep company) hang out (slang) * (be in agreement) agree, concur * (associate or unite in company with) associate, hang out (slang)

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