Coterie vs Cohort - What's the difference?
coterie | cohort |
A circle of people who associate with one another.
An exclusive group of people, who associate closely for a common purpose; a clique.
A communal burrow of prairie dogs.
* 2000 , Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis , page 473:
* 2001 , Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Emperor's Embrace: The Evolution of Fatherhood :
* 2009 , Miriam Aronin, The Prairie Dog's Town: A Perfect Hideaway , page 22:
A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
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* 1916 , (James Joyce), , Chapter III,
* 1919 , (Albert Payson Terhune), , Chapter VI: Lost!,
(statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
(military, history) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.
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An accomplice; abettor; associate.
Any band or body of warriors.
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost
(taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
A colleague.
As nouns the difference between coterie and cohort
is that coterie is a circle of people who associate with one another while cohort is a group of people supporting the same thing or person.coterie
English
Noun
(en noun)- The new junior employee joined our merry after-hours coterie .
- A tightly-knit coterie of executive powerbrokers made all the real decisions in the company.
- The coterie was located in the middle of our wheat field.
- The population of each coterie' constantly changes over a period of a few months or years, by death, birth, and emigration. But the ' coterie boundary remains about the same, being learned by each prairie dog born into it.
- The odd part of prairie dog life is that this friendly state exists only among the members of each coterie', and does not extend between ' coteries .
- The Town Grows Young prairie dogs in a coterie are brothers and sisters. They have the same father and sometimes the same mother. To find a mate from a different family, young prairie dogs must travel to a new area.
cohort
English
(wikipedia cohort)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.
- The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.
- Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- With him the cohort bright / Of watchful cherubim.
