different between cohort vs session

English

Etymology

From Latin cohors (stem cohort-); borrowed into Old English as coorta, but reintroduced into Middle English as c?hort and ch?ors via Old French cohorte. Doublet of court.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.h??(?)t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko??.h??t/
• Hyphenation: co?hort

Noun

cohort (plural cohorts)

1. A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
   • 1887 July, George John Romanes, Mental Differences of Men and Women, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 31,

     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.

   • 1919, Albert Payson Terhune, Lad: A Dog, Chapter VI: Lost!,

     A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.

2. (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.

   The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.

3. (historical, Ancient Rome, military) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.

   Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.

   • 1900, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Evelyn Shuckburgh (translator), Letters to Atticus, 5.20,

     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.

   • 1913, Cornelius, article in Catholic Encyclopedia,

     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.

4. An accomplice; abettor; associate.

   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.

5. Any band or body of warriors.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     With him the cohort bright / Of watchful cherubim.

6. (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
7. A colleague.
8. A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.

   The students in my cohort for my organic chemistry class this year are not up to snuff. Last year's cohort scored much higher averages on the mid-term.

Meronyms

• (major unit of the Roman army): legion, maniple, century

Derived terms

• infracohort
• subcohort
• supercohort

Translations

Verb

cohort (third-person singular simple present cohorts, present participle cohorting, simple past and past participle cohorted)

1. To associate with such a group

See also

• cahoots

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cohort”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• chroot, rootch, trocho-

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cohors. Doublet of cort.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko???t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku??rt/

Noun

cohort f (plural cohorts)

1. cohort (group of people supporting the same thing)
2. cohort (demographic grouping of people)
3. cohort (division of a Roman legion)

Further reading

• “cohort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

English

Etymology

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessi? (“a sitting”), from sede? (“sit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s???n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Homophone: cession

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
2. A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

3. (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

4. (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
5. (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood.

6. (music) Ellipsis of jam session
7. (education) An academic term.

Hyponyms

• bull session

Derived terms

• parasession
• sessionize
• sessionless
• session musician
• session-replicated

Related terms

Translations

Verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)

1. (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

Anagrams

• essoins, osseins

Finnish

Noun

session

1. Genitive singular form of sessio.

French

Etymology

From Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.sj??/

Noun

session f (plural sessions)

1. session, period
2. (computing) session

Related terms

• seoir

Further reading

• “session” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Noun

session f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)

1. sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)

Descendants

• French: session
• ? Middle English: session
  • English: session