Kin vs Cohort - What's the difference?
kin | cohort |
Race; family; breed; kind.
(collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
* Francis Bacon
One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
Kind; sort; manner; way.
Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
* 1840 , Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository (page 40)
A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
* 1887 July, (w), '', in (Popular Science Monthly) , Volume 31,
* 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.
* 1900 , , 5.20,
* 1910 , (Arthur Conan Doyle)'', '' ,
* 1913 , '', article in ''(Catholic Encyclopedia) ,
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 kin and cohort
is that kin is pain while cohort is a group of people supporting the same thing or person.kin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) kin, kyn, ken, kun, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)- You are of kin , and so a friend to their persons.
Derived terms
* akin * kind * kindred * kinfolk * kinship * kinsman * kinswoman * kith and kin * next of kinSee also
* kith * clanExternal links
*Adjective
(-)- It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- (Riemann)
- If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin .
Anagrams
* ink English three-letter words ----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.