Vocabulary
Cohort
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a group of people with a common statistical characteristic.
Urdu meaning
ہم آہنگی، ہم سلسلہ، جماعت، گروہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- In countries like the US, almost 50 per cent of young people around 18 enter college programmes; in Pakistan, only 7-8pc of the relevant cohort reach that level.
- Our first political cohort included the freedom leaders.
- The next cohort rose in Gen Ayub`s era.
- It espoused leftist politics to address the socioeconomic complaints the first cohort and Ayub had created, following global trends at the time.
- How the next cohort rules will be criticalas the yearsleadingto our centennial freedom mark will see bigger economic, demographic, ecological, social and external threats.
Synonyms
group, grouping, category, categorization, grade, grading, classification, class, set,
Antonyms
enemy, foe, opponent, adversary, antagonist,
Curator example
“the 1940–4 birth cohort of women”
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