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As nouns the difference between cohort and generation

is that cohort is a group of people supporting the same thing or person while generation is the fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.

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.

    • generation

    English

    (wikipedia generation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.
  • * 1832 , (Charles Lyell), Principles of Geology , II:
    • The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations.
  • The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
    • So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.
  • * 1626 , (Francis Bacon), Sylva Sylvarum :
    • Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.
  • * c. 1605 , (William Shakespeare), Timon of Athens , First Folio 1623, I.3:
    • Thy Mothers of my generation : what's she, if I be a Dogge?
  • A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
    • This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
    Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
    All generations and ages of the Christian church -
  • (obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
  • The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
  • * 2008 , Edgar Thorpe, Objective English :
    • Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.
  • A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
  • * 2009 , Paul Deital, Harvey Deital and Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers :
    • The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
  • (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
  • A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another.
    • Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
  • A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
    • People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.

    Derived terms

    * alternate generation * generation gap * Generation X * spontaneous generation

    Related terms

    * generate

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