The earliest sense of cohort is ‘a unit of men within the Roman army’. From this it developed the meanings of ‘a group of people with a shared characteristic’, e.g. the Church in Ireland still has a vast cohort of weekly churchgoers. From the 1950s onwards a new sense developed in the US, meaning ‘a companion or colleague’, as in young Jack arrived with three of his cohorts. Although this meaning is well established, there are still some people who object to it on the grounds that cohort should only be used for group of people (as in its extended sense), never for individuals.
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