troop

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troop^¹

/tɹuːp/ UK
/tɹʉwp/ British, Southern, Standard
/tɹup/ US
/tɹʉːp/ Australia, New Zealand
/tɾʉp/ Scotland
/tɹʉp/ Northern Ireland
/tɾuːp/ Wales

Sounds like troupe · Rhymes with -uːp

Where it comes from

Attested in English since 1545, from French troupe, from Back-formation from troupeau, from Middle French trope, troupe, from Old French trope, trupe, of unknown origin. Compare Early Medieval Latin troppus.

Doublet of troupe, and possibly also of thorp, dorp, and trip. Cognate with German Dorf (“village”).

noun troops

collective A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general). That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.
collective A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
collective A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
collective, in plural A group of soldiers; military forces. Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?
collective, nonstandard A company of actors; a troupe. In order to form the new troop to a greater degree of perfection, the four principal actors were placed in the seminary of the cadets
collective A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each. Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920), Aids To Scoutmastership, page 6: “It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative effort.”
broadly, nonstandard An individual soldier or member of a military force; a trooper. One American M48 was slightly grazed and one American troop lightly wounded.
collective A group of primates (lemurs, monkeys and apes).
collective A group of meerkat families living together. troop of meerkats is usually made up of two or three family groups.
A group of mushrooms that are close but not close enough to be called a cluster.
A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

verb troops · trooping · trooped

To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
To march on; to go forward in haste.
To move or march as if in a crowd. The children trooped into the room.

Troop^²

proper noun Troops

A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: parade, promenade, flock, scout group, scout troop, forces, military, squadron, regiment, platoon, army, soldier, posse, garrison, personnel, provider

Translations

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noun collection of people

Kiswahili	kikosi
Deutsch	Trupp, Truppe
Italiano	truppa
Русский	тру́ппа trúppa, гру́ппа grúppa

noun small unit of cavalry

हिन्दी	टुकड़ी ṭukṛī
Русский	отря́д otrjád

noun detachment of soldiers or police

हिन्दी	टुकड़ी ṭukṛī
Kiswahili	vikosi
Русский	отря́д otrjád, отделе́ние otdelénije

noun military forces

한국어	군대 gundae
日本語	軍隊 guntai
中文	軍隊 /军队 jūnduì
हिन्दी	टुकड़ी ṭukṛī
Kiswahili	kikosi
Português	tropa
Français	troupes
Deutsch	Truppen
Italiano	truppa
Русский	войска́ vojská

noun particular roll of the drum

Kiswahili	vikosi

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@misc{troop_2026,
  title = {troop},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/troop},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}