Synonyms of the word cohort


COHORTBAND - CIRCLE - COMPANY - LOT - PEOPLE - SET

cohort

  • n. A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
  • n. (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common…
  • n. (military, historical) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.
  • n. An accomplice; abettor; associate.
  • n. Any band or body of warriors.
  • n. (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
  • n. A colleague.
  • n. A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the…

band

  • n. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
  • n. (architecture) A strip of decoration.
  • n. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
  • n. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • n. (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic…
  • n. (physics) A part of the radio spectrum.
  • n. (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
  • n. (obsolete) A bond.
  • n. (obsolete) Pledge; security.
  • n. (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify…
  • n. (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc.
  • n. (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $10K, held together by a band; (by extension)…
  • v. (transitive) To fasten with a band.
  • v. (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
  • n. A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
  • n. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
  • n. A marching band.
  • n. A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
  • n. (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society.
  • n. (Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government…
  • v. (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.

circle

  • n. (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a…
  • n. A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a…
  • n. Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
  • n. A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
  • n. Orbit.
  • n. A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
  • n. (cricket) A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight…
  • n. (Wicca) A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the…
  • n. (South Africa) A traffic circle or roundabout.
  • n. (obsolete) Compass; circuit; enclosure.
  • n. (astronomy) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed…
  • n. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
  • n. (logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive…
  • n. Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
  • n. A territorial division or district.
  • n. (in the plural) A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
  • v. (transitive) To travel around along a curved path.
  • v. (transitive) To surround.
  • v. (transitive) To place or mark a circle around.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel in circles.

company

  • n. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
  • n. (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its…
  • n. (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known…
  • n. (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
  • n. (uncountable) Companionship.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
  • v. (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.

lot

  • n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
  • n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
  • n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
  • n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
  • n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
  • n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
  • n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without…
  • n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
  • n. A prize in a lottery.
  • n. Allotment; lottery.
  • n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
  • n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32…
  • v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
  • v. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

people

  • n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two…
  • n. (countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group,…
  • n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
  • n. One's colleagues or employees.
  • n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
  • n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the…
  • n. plural of person.
  • v. (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
  • v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
  • v. (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

set

  • v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
  • v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
  • v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
  • v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
  • v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
  • v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
  • v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
  • v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
  • v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
  • v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
  • v. (intransitive) To solidify.
  • v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
  • v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
  • v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
  • v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
  • v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
  • v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
  • v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
  • v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
  • v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
  • v. To place or fix in a setting.
  • v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
  • v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
  • v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
  • v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
  • v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
  • v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
  • v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
  • v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
  • v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
  • v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
  • n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
  • n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
  • n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
  • n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
  • n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
  • n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
  • n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
  • n. A young oyster when first attached.
  • n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
  • n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
  • n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
  • n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
  • adj. Fixed in position.
  • adj. Rigid, solidified.
  • adj. Ready, prepared.
  • adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
  • adj. Prearranged.
  • adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
  • adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
  • n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
  • n. A rudimentary fruit.
  • n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
  • n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
  • n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
  • n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
  • n. An object made up of several parts.
  • n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
  • n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
  • n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
  • n. The scenery for a film or play.
  • n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
  • n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
  • n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
  • n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
  • n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
  • n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
  • n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
  • v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

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