Definition
a group of people who share a common feature, especially age
In a sentence
“The first-year cohort included students from twelve countries.”
Similar words
- group
- set
Related vocabulary
Why this word matters: cohort appears in academic reading at the 8th-grade level and is exactly the type of word that shows up on the CPS HSAT Reading section. Practice it in context with our spaced-repetition system at vocabulary.