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noun a company of companions or supporters
noun a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)
noun a group of people having approximately the same age
originFrom Latin cohors (stem cohort-); borrowed into Old English as coorta, but reintroduced into Middle English as cōhort and chōors via Old French cohorte. Doublet of court.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0